TAMPA - When the clerk read the jury's verdict, that Javon Deniro Blackmon is guilty of killing his 10-month-old son, Blackmon pursed his lips and closed his eyes. ...more

May 8, 2008

TAMPA - A week before DeAndre Wallace's 20th birthday, Circuit Judge Ronald Ficarrotta sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting a Hillsborough County sheriff's detective. ...more

May 8, 2008

Carrie Nation Redux Regarding "A Reasonable Solution" (Letters, Feb. 19): In a letter to Mother Trib, one of the advocates of sin taxes suggested another tax be placed on cigarettes of $1 per pack. Regardless of those advocates against tobacco, people in our country are still free to make choices in their lives and live with the consequences of those decisions. ...more

February 25, 2008

Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, hardly looking like someone who could have been involved in the brutal killing of John Benjamin. ...more

December 13, 2007

The second of two men charged in the slaying of John Benjamin heads to trial this morning in Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Court. ...more

December 11, 2007

TAMPA - Oscar Ray Bolin, again, has been sentenced to death. ...more

November 30, 2007

DEAR ABBY: I am a retired pediatric dentist who frequently treated children other dentists couldn't manage or preferred not to. ...more

November 23, 2007

A Pasco County jury deliberated for only 25 minutes Thursday before finding Robert E. Conner guilty of attacking 13-year-old Carolina McDonald while she waited for her school bus. ...more

November 17, 2007

John Benjamin spent the last hours of his life high on crack and begging for money to pay off a $300 drug debt. ...more

November 15, 2007

O.J. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from a suspected sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. ...more

November 15, 2007