Training law enforcement and child welfare authorities to better work together and changing laws to ensure that reporting missing children is a top priority are among recommendations released Friday by a task force on child protection. ...more

November 3, 2007

TAMPA - Training law enforcement and child welfare authorities to better work together and changing laws to ensure that reporting missing children is a top priority are among recommendations released today by a task force on child protection. ...more

November 2, 2007

A prison card game dealt police the tip they needed to arrest a man in a killing that occurred nearly three years ago, authorities said Saturday. ...more

October 22, 2007

Investigators say it could take months to identify bones found Friday inside a submerged vehicle belonging to a woman reported missing in 2005. ...more

October 17, 2007

LAKELAND - Investigators say it could take months to identify bones found Friday inside a submerged vehicle belonging to a woman reported missing in 2005. Although detectives have not ruled out foul play, they have seen no indication that the person found in the vehicle was murdered, said W.J. Martin, the sheriff's office chief of investigation. ...more

October 16, 2007

Barbara Ellen Mongee was never far from home. The mystery surrounding the Seffner woman's whereabouts ended Friday after 14 years. Dental records determined bones found in a hidden grave less than a mile from her house were the remains of the 37-year-old mother. ...more

October 6, 2007

Detectives say they have solved a missing person case that is more than a decade old. ...more

October 5, 2007

WASHINGTON - James McCormick drove by a ravine near his Laurel, Md., home many times in the week since his 18-year-old son disappeared, oblivious to the fact that his son lay trapped in a car wreck below. ...more

September 10, 2007