The public is invited to ask questions about the 2009-10 county budget during a 6:30 p.m. workshop Thursday, June 18, at Lorenzo Hamilton Community Center (Kennedy Park), 899 Kennedy Blvd. in Brooksville ...more

June 17, 2009

TAMPA -- Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man officers found on the sidewalk of East Columbus Drive near North 22nd Street early this morning. ...more

May 7, 2009

The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. ...more

February 20, 2009

The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. Alvarez's decision to drink and drive ended 8-year-old Kevin's life on May 10, 2007. The boy's family came to court Thursday to watch Alvarez plead no contest to DUI-manslaughter in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence. ...more

February 19, 2009

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Scott Schweickert for conspiring with Steven Lorenzo to drug and torture two men who died in Lorenzo's Seminole Heights home. The court also upheld Schweickert's conviction for drugging one of the men, Michael Wachholtz, with the intent to commit a crime of violence. ...more

October 31, 2008

An argument about a $20 loan led a Lakeland man to strike a person four times on the right leg with a piece of steel rebar, Tampa police say. Officers arrested Lorenzo Adams on Sunday following the 5 a.m. attack Friday in the 1600 block of North Marion Street. ...more

October 27, 2008

A 21-year-old Lake Wales man died Sunday morning after losing control of his pickup in Polk County. ...more

October 13, 2008

A 21-year-old Lake Wales man died early this morning when his pickup truck lost control in Polk County. ...more

October 12, 2008

Suspected of helping Steven Lorenzo drug, torture and kill two men in his Seminole Heights home, Scott Schweickert had information detectives badly wanted. ...more

October 12, 2008

Timeline of the Steven Lorenzo/Scott Schweickert case ...more

October 11, 2008