The father of a young woman murdered in Tallahassee while acting as an undercover informant has pleaded for stricter guidelines for police. ...more

April 6, 2009

The sheriff's office cracked down on sales of alcohol to minors on Wednesday with the help of state agents and undercover teenagers. ...more

March 13, 2009

A suspected U.S. missile killed seven people in a Taliban stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, while a hard-line cleric rattled peace efforts elsewhere by demanding the government launch Islamic courts within two weeks. ...more

March 1, 2009

Tallahassee-area law enforcement officers failed Rachel Hoffman horribly last spring while she was working as an informant during a controlled drug buy. They lost visual and audible contact with her, and the 23-year-old, who had recently graduated from Florida State University, was gunned down. ...more

January 19, 2009

The parents of a slain 23-year-old Clearwater woman who was killed acting as a confidential informant when a drug deal went bad are pushing legislation to protect future informants. ...more

January 8, 2009

Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan. ...more

September 10, 2008

John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of Callahan's own Cadillac at Miami's airport. ...more

September 8, 2008

Police negligence contributed to drug informant Rachel Hoffman's death, a Leon County grand jury said Friday. ...more

August 2, 2008

Police negligence contributed to drug informant Rachel Hoffman's death, a grand jury said today. ...more

August 1, 2008

The tale starts with a little white boat. Scott D. Overbeck said he paid $1,500 in cash for the 12-footer, and that Marlene Aisenberg likely sold it to him. He speculated the boat once carried the body of Aisenberg's missing 5-month-old, Sabrina. ...more

July 30, 2008