Police are looking for the killer of a popular Lakeland resident whose body was found outside his auto body shop Monday night. ...more

December 31, 2008

A detention deputy found a 5-inch shank in the jail cell today of Kendrick Morris, who was charged in April with the beating and rape of a high school student at the Bloomingdale library. "We believe the weapon came from plastic broken off a food tray," Col. Jim Previtera said. ...more

December 30, 2008

TAMPA – Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 17, 2008

Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown, 58, a radio engineer, recalled a time in Naples when he was hired to be a "prisoner" at the local jail. Green, 48, a theater professor at the University of South Florida, told of how her life has changed since her 78-year-old mother fell, injured her shoulder and was diagnosed with dementia. ...more

December 13, 2008

TAMPA -- Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown and Green today became the first two Tampa area residents to record 40-minute personal accounts for the StoryCorps project. This nonprofit effort to collect personal oral history has set up a mobile recording studio in Ybor City. ...more

December 11, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Work on the $17.8 million addition to the Land O' Lakes Jail on Central Boulevard is moving along well now that the walls are going up. ...more

November 27, 2008

A former inmate at the county jail is suing the facility three years after he was allegedly injured in a "heinous melee" over microwave use. ...more

November 26, 2008

Restoring money cut last year to prison education programs and increasing money to programs that would help prepare inmates to re-enter society are some of the top priorities for The Department of Corrections, the department's top official said Wednesday. ...more

November 19, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is making several changes in how it runs its jail system, including the creation of crisis intervention teams, additional training in handling inmate grievances and clarifying use of force procedures for detention and patrol deputies. ...more

November 18, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is making several changes in how it runs its jail system, including the creation of crisis intervention teams, additional training in handling inmate grievances and clarifying use of force procedures for detention and patrol deputies. ...more

November 17, 2008