An Iraq war veteran has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend in St. Petersburg two years ago, according to prosecutors and police documents. ...more

January 29, 2009

A federal judge accused a 29-year-old Tampa man of faking mental problems, and then sentenced him today to life behind bars, plus 82 years, for his role in a crime spree in which a county firefighter was carjacked. ...more

January 23, 2009

Roger Gayle Thompson avoided a trial and possible life sentence Wednesday by pleading no contest to an attempted murder charge. ...more

January 15, 2009

Roger Gayle Thompson avoided a trial and possible life sentence today by pleading no contest to an attempted murder charge. ...more

January 14, 2009

A convicted murderer's life sentence was reduced to 10 years on Thursday. ...more

December 24, 2008

A quarter-century ago, Adam Walsh's accused killer accompanied police to a bus bench outside a Sears where he claimed to have snatched the 6-year-old boy. Then, Ottis Toole went with authorities to a turnpike where he said Adam cried for his mother. Later, they stopped at a bridge where Toole said he hacked off the boy's head. ...more

December 20, 2008

A man found guilty of murdering his girlfriend's 2-year-old argued Tuesday in court that medical evidence proves he is innocent. ...more

December 16, 2008

It has been more than 10 years since 7-year-old Amanda Brown disappeared from her Seffner home. But that doesn't mean her father, Roy Brown, has any closure. ...more

December 16, 2008

The man convicted in the 1998 disappearance and death of a 7-year-old Seffner girl is asking for a new trial. ...more

December 15, 2008

One death row inmate convicted of killing and robbing an elderly man will be retried. Another, who raped a pregnant woman and killed her husband, will get a new sentencing hearing. ...more

December 11, 2008