The evidence handling controversy involving the Highlands County Sheriff's Office just isn't going away. ...more

September 6, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A grand jury returned a first-degree murder indictment Tuesday against the man accused of raping and killing 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood. ...more

September 4, 2008

1986: The University of South Florida hires Sami Al-Arian to teach computer science. ...more

September 3, 2008

A grand jury has formally indicted a man accused of killing his 81-year-old mother by beating her head with a remote control and holding her underwater in the family pool. ...more

August 29, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Even as he held a jail visitation phone with shackled hands, first-degree murder defendant Timothy Brooks said Thursday he still hopes he will play in the National Football League someday. ...more

August 7, 2008

A grand jury formally charged a Brooksville man with two counts of first-degree murder Tuesday in connection with a brutal Masaryktown slaying. ...more

August 7, 2008

In the face of growing questions about the strength of the evidence, the Justice Department is preparing to declare the 2001 anthrax case solved and to make its case publicly today against a military scientist who killed himself after investigators linked him to the attacks, federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

Lou Pearlman, the former boy band promoter and entrepreneur turned federal inmate, has taken another career turn: police informant. ...more

July 31, 2008

BRADENTON - A former Lakewood Ranch High quarterback and his friend could face the death penalty if convicted of the first-degree murder charges prosecutors filed against them Monday. ...more

July 29, 2008