An 11-year-old girl, held for psychiatric evaluation last week after she and a co-defendant were accused setting her mother on fire, was transferred out of the hospital and into juvenile detention over the weekend, officials said. ...more

January 4, 2010

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