If a judge sets him free today after 35 years in prison, the first thing Jamie Bernard Bain plans to do is pay his respects at his stepfather's grave. ...more

December 17, 2009

One person is in custody and authorities are searching for a second suspect after a gunman opened fire on Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies this morning. ...more

November 13, 2009

The story of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad nearing execution on Tuesday in Virginia for crimes he committed in October 2002 piqued my interest ("Beltway Sniper's execution looms," Nation and World, Nov. 10). The interest is in the vast and stark differences between Florida's and Virginia's death-row process. ...more

November 11, 2009

Joe Affronti, the mayor of Temple Terrace, has accepted an invitation from Councillor Pamela Holden-Brown, mayor of the Borough of Eastleigh, England, for a sister city exchange visit. ...more

November 4, 2009

The Red Cross Angels' annual Silver Coffee is Monday. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the home of Toni Everett, 3422 Jean Circle, and includes refreshments and information about the organization. ...more

November 4, 2009

An aunt of John Evander Couey stepped forward Thursday to claim his body, relieving the Florida Department of Corrections of the financial burden of cremation and burial for one of West Central Florida's most reviled child killers. ...more

October 2, 2009

A Port Charlotte woman who is nearly eight months pregnant has been charged with possession of oxycodone and drug paraphernalia. ...more

July 10, 2009

A man charged with stabbing two other Gainesville men late Tuesday was previously jailed in the late 1960s on a Highlands County manslaughter conviction. ...more

June 4, 2009

A get-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man hit another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. ...more

March 31, 2009

Aget-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man smashed another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. According to the report, Derick D. Schexnayder's mother, not named in the report, invited Curtis Andrew Osborne, 49, to Schexnayder's home at 8528 Bolton Ave., Hudson, early Sunday, but Schexnayder later told Osborne to leave around 1 a.m. ...more

March 30, 2009