A local criminal case will go national tonight when the popular show "Forensic Files" airs a profile of the investigation into the 2002 murder of Joshan Ashbrook. ...more

October 30, 2009

Investigators said today they are expanding their search and re-interviewing family members as they continue to look for a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her home. ...more

February 13, 2009

Two Sarasota men who robbed two women and stole their cars have been arrested, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office says. ...more

January 7, 2009

TAMPA - Prosecutors called a parade of police officers and crime scene investigators to the witness stand this morning, hoping to establish the forensic foundation to convict Amos Mequel Busby of kidnapping a woman and repeatedly raping her for three hours. ...more

December 16, 2008

Jennifer Hudson and her family offered a $100,000 reward Sunday for the safe return of her missing nephew, as investigators looked for forensic evidence near the home where her mother and brother were found shot to death. ...more

October 27, 2008

Prosecutors have DNA tests and hair samples. They have testimony about "the smell of death" in the trunk of the suspect's car. ...more

October 16, 2008

ORLANDO - A missing 3-year-old girl's decomposing body was likely in the trunk of her arrested mother's car, the lead detective in the case said. ...more

September 1, 2008

Two St. Petersburg police officers allowed their personal feelings about the fatal shooting of Javon Dawson influence their decision June 17 to tow away a parked truck that displayed posters of the teen, authorities said. ...more

August 21, 2008

A St. Petersburg police officer was justified when he fatally shot a teenager twice in the back June 7, the state attorney's office said Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office today said a St. Petersburg police officer was justified June 7 when he fatally shot a 17-year-old boy twice in the back. ...more

August 12, 2008