A second defendant charged in the 2007 murder of Bryan "Red" Fanning now has an October trial date. ...more

May 22, 2009

A two-vehicle accident Wednesday on State Road 70 in Highlands County claimed the lives of an adult and a small child. ...more

May 22, 2009

A two-vehicle accident Wednesday on State Road 70 in Highlands County claimed the lives of two people. ...more

May 21, 2009

Lakeland police are trying to determine the identity of a woman found suffocated to death. ...more

April 17, 2009

The brother-in-law of actress Katie Holmes was found dead in a home in Sarasota at age 48, officials say. ...more

April 16, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009

A 2-year-old Seminole boy drowned today, Pinellas County deputies say. ...more

March 27, 2009

A central Florida mother has been arrested months after police say her infant daughter died of malnutrition. ...more

March 27, 2009

A jury pool of at least 50 was whittled down to eight women and four men who will make a sentence recommendation in the case of Joshua Lee Altersberger. ...more

March 26, 2009

Two Polk County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man who they said pointed a 9-mm pistol at them outside an apartment near Lakeland early Sunday morning. ...more

March 23, 2009