Investigators from two cities are working together to identify a body found at an abandoned house in Lakeland. ...more

November 19, 2008

Kimberly Higgins, 35, one of the victim's four children, described the last time she saw her father at her Oct. 4 wedding in Washington, D.C. ...more

November 7, 2008

Law enforcement officials say they have a person of interest in the case of a Lake Placid man found dead Monday, the victim of a gunshot wound. ...more

November 7, 2008

LAKE PLACID The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Monday shooting in Lake Placid that is being worked as a homicide. ...more

November 5, 2008

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Monday shooting in Lake Placid that is being worked as a homicide. ...more

November 4, 2008

Manatee County sheriff's detectives are trying to identify a man whose body was found this afternoon at a palm tree farm in Palmetto. ...more

October 27, 2008

Many of "the worst of the worst" are back on the streets. From July through September, the U.S. Marshals Service conducted Operation Orange Crush, a 10-week sweep targeting "the worst of the worst" criminals. Five were charged with homicide, and 23 were charged with crimes involving weapons. Locally, only about one in five of those arrested remained in jail just days after. ...more

October 27, 2008

Pasco sheriff's detectives have ruled the death of a man whose body was found Sunday evening near a bar was a homicide. Bernaldo C. Vasquez, 23, of 13324 Center St., was found dead outside a home at 38827 Island Ave. just before 5:30 p.m., not far from Cooper's Bar, sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said. ...more

October 20, 2008

Sarasota police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Thursday night in the 1800 block of 20th Street. ...more

October 16, 2008

James Patrick Fry, whose body was found in August in his burned sport utility vehicle, died as a result of a homicide, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said today. ...more

October 15, 2008