A Highlands County jury was picked Monday and testimony is scheduled to begin Thursday in the case of an Avon Park man accused of shooting another in the chest last December. ...more

December 16, 2009

Crouched behind a wood pile, the disheveled man had a pistol, a revolver and a loaded magazine in his pockets. An assault rifle lay near his feet. A Taser probe dangled from his tangle of hair. ...more

December 9, 2009

Crouched behind a wood pile, the disheveled man had a pistol, a revolver and a loaded magazine in his pockets. An assault rifle lay near his feet. A Taser probe dangled from his tangle of hair. ...more

December 8, 2009

A hearing is scheduled in the murder case against Casey Anthony, the Florida mother charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter. ...more

October 16, 2009

Casey Anthony's attorneys say they want a judge to dismiss the murder case against her because the state prevented them from properly inspecting the woods where her daughter's remains were found. ...more

September 18, 2009

Prosecutors have asked that the Orlando mother charged with killing her daughter face check fraud charges before she goes on trial in the murder case. Prosecutors filed a request Tuesday asking that Casey Anthony go on trial for the fraud charges within the next two months. ...more

June 23, 2009

Jennifer Johnson had about a minute to talk before her cell phone lost its connection with a 911 operator in Plant City. ...more

April 2, 2009

Jennifer Johnson had about a minute to talk before a 911 operator in Plant City lost a connection with her. "Ma'am, I'm in a trunk right now," the 31-year-old Tampa mother yelled on a copy of the call released today. "They got me in the trunk. … I don't know where I'm at." No officers were dispatched to find her, according to a report contained in the 700 pages of discovery material released with the call today. ...more

April 1, 2009

Sarasota police detectives say they have solved a murder case more than three decades old. ...more

March 25, 2009

Seven children poisoned by insecticide. ...more

March 21, 2009