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

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal shooting of a man by a deputy that happened early this morning. ...more

March 22, 2009

Detectives on Sunday searched a wooded area near U.S. 301 where a man looking through a trash dump found human bones. ...more

March 16, 2009

Detectives today are searching a wooded area near U.S. 301 where a man looking through a trash dump on Saturday found human bones. ...more

March 15, 2009

A British tourist who disappeared two days ago while visiting relatives in Ruskin was found dead along Interstate 75 on Friday morning, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said. ...more

March 14, 2009