A 25-year-old Zephyrhills man has been accused of having two 16-year-old girls perform a sex act on him in a Wesley Chapel motel room. ...more

December 16, 2009

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