The North Carolina mother who reported for Army duty with her two young children will be discharged from the military. ...more

March 2, 2009

A convicted killer and sex offender from Manatee County was fatally shot in St. Petersburg last week. ...more

January 27, 2009

Authorities say another victim of a Dec. 20 shooting attack in Polk County has died. ...more

December 28, 2008

A man hiding beneath a woman's motel room window early this morning turned out to be a registered sex offender on probation until 2015, police said. ...more

December 27, 2008

OCALA — Ocala police say a father has been charged with lewd and lascivious battery after arranging sexual intercourse for his 15-year-old son. ...more

August 30, 2008

Linda Markel awoke at 1 this morning and sat in her screened porch as Tropical Storm Fay approached. She listened to radio reports about the storm and smoked a few cigarettes as the winds whipped the nearby palm trees. The rain fell for hours and began to flood her parking lot. ...more

August 19, 2008

A Clearwater police officer received an employee notice after her gun discharged in April as she was entering a hotel room where authorities believed a woman might be in distress, according to Clearwater police. The officer, Keisha Bradley, 35, was also ordered to undergo remedial training, said Elizabeth Daly-Watts, Clearwater's public safety spokeswoman. ...more

July 25, 2008

A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design - the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived at the local newspaper four days later. ...more

July 2, 2008

The search for a missing college student whose nude pictures were featured on an Internet Web site turned into a homicide case when a body was found Thursday, investigators said. ...more

November 30, 2007

Jurors deliberated for about two hours Thursday before finding a Pasco County man guilty of trying to arrange a hit on his ex-wife's boyfriend. ...more

November 16, 2007