Casey Anthony, the Orlando mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, sobbed in court Friday as a prosecutor speculated aloud that the toddler was methodically drugged and suffocated with tape. ...more

December 11, 2009

Tuesday's Washington Heights shooting is officially being worked as a homicide following the death of the 22-year-old victim. ...more

December 9, 2009

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating a homicide that left a convicted sexual predator dead in Town 'N Country. ...more

December 1, 2009

For two days,18-year-old Dakota Herrin took Pasco County sheriff's detectives on a wild goose chase looking for a body that instead eventually led to his arrest on a charge of filing a false report. ...more

November 19, 2009

A 26-year-old man on a bicycle was struck and killed by a Hillsborough County deputy's cruiser Sunday night. ...more

November 3, 2009

After someone stole one of our newspaper racks and left its dented carcass behind a grocery store, I compiled a list of reasons not to steal a newspaper rack and leave its dented carcass behind a grocery store in an effort to discourage future crimes of this nature. ...more

October 21, 2009

Four days before a hearing about the roughly $18,000 he owed his ex-wife in child support, Robert Cecil Laird jumped to his death from the Sunshine Skyway bridge. ...more

October 13, 2009

PENSACOLA (AP) — The University of West Florida was on lockdown as police searched for a homicide suspect believed to have fled there. ...more

October 7, 2009

U.S. 19 is closed between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Klosterman Road after a woman pushing her bike across the road was hit by a vehicle. ...more

October 5, 2009

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office has charged a Palmetto man with murder in the wake of a fatal home invasion Thursday night. Lamont Yarn, 19, who has no permanent address, was shot in the upper body during the incident at a home on Third Avenue Drive East in Palmetto. ...more

October 3, 2009