For decades, The Spring of Tampa Bay has worked to protect women and children affected by domestic violence. ...more

October 21, 2009

A Wesley Chapel man who once stalked Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober may have planned to kill the prosecutor and made threats against judges. ...more

August 14, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for drugging and sexually torturing nine men. ...more

February 2, 2009

A U.S. marshal who shot a suspect last month did so accidentally after colliding with the suspect with his gun drawn during a chase, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ...more

November 19, 2008

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

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

The attorney for the family of one of two people who recently committed suicide at Tampa General Hospital has called on the State Attorney's Office to launch a criminal probe into the matter. ...more

August 26, 2008

An attorney for the estate of a woman who hanged herself at Tampa General Hospital is urging the state attorney's office to pursue manslaughter charges in the case. ...more

August 25, 2008

TAMPA - A governor-mandated budget cut of about 4 percent will mean fewer prosecutors splitting a growing number of cases across the state and the probable loss of 11 prosecutors from ranks in Hillsborough County. ...more

June 24, 2008

A car dealer who escaped prosecution after making improper campaign contributions to a city council candidate now faces a possible investigation from the state Elections Commission. ...more

May 8, 2008