Fifth-grader Jordan Brown boarded the bus and headed to school like he does most other mornings in this rural western Pennsylvania community. ...more

February 22, 2009

A 24-year-old father of twin baby girls was arrested at his home Monday evening, accused of killing one of the infants in December after being bothered by her cries, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 28, 2009

Police are investigating three drive-by shootings over the weekend that one victim believes might be related to a fight at a high school football game. One woman's home was shot at twice within three hours, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

December 15, 2008

VENICE - Police arrested a Venice High School teacher's aide on Thursday after another school employee reported he slammed a 17-year-old autistic student's head into the wall. ...more

September 12, 2008

Deputies broke down a door and shot a man to death as he was stabbing a woman inside a south Manatee County home this morning, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 22, 2008

The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The plane descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor. ...more

July 26, 2008

TAMPA - A bridge tender in Bradenton heard a loud bang this morning and discovered that someone had shot the window on the side of his shack, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

June 9, 2008

A 26-year-old man who told deputies he was on a two-day "ice" binge and hadn't slept was arrested Sunday evening after an apparent crime spree, according to sheriff's office reports. ...more

February 12, 2008

It hit almost without warning. Although there had been a tornado watch on television, Mitch Cross and his wife, Marge, didn't pay much attention. How many tornado watches had they seen before, without incident? ...more

December 25, 2007

The roar of Paris rush hour died down, giving way to eerie quiet. With traffic halted, jurors in a British inquest ventured by foot into a dark underpass and came to a halt before the scarred, dented pillar where Princess Diana's Mercedes crashed 10 years ago. ...more

October 9, 2007