The future looked bright for Timothy L. Brooks in June when he threw the only touchdown pass for the Lakewood Ranch High School varsity football team in its spring warm-up game. ...more

July 15, 2008

Manatee sheriff's officials today arrested a quarterback of the Lakewood Ranch High School football team on a murder charge in the killing of a 19-year-old man during a drug deal and robbery Sunday night. ...more

July 14, 2008

TAMPA - Jury selection is ongoing in the case against Joshua Rosa, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the Dec. 8, 2005, strangulation of a 13-year-old Citrus Park boy. ...more

July 14, 2008

Rodney Roman, against whom a first-degree murder charge in the killing of football standout Kwane Doster was dropped, was arrested Thursday on drug trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering charges. ...more

July 11, 2008

Peggy Sue Abbott's attorney advised her to take her first-degree murder charge to a jury. Two mental health counselors who have known her for years gave her the same advice. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - Rodney Roman, against whom a first-degree murder charge in the killing of football standout Kwane Doster was dropped, was arrested Thursday on drug trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering charges. ...more

July 10, 2008

TAMPA - Prosecutors have released a video of the stabbing of a homeless man this year that resulted in a charge of felony attempted murder. ...more

June 19, 2008

The Bay area was stunned by the slaying of first one young girl, then another, then another during a 14-month span: Carlie Brucia, Jessie Lunsford and Sarah Lunde. ...more

May 29, 2008

Timothy Craig Blackwelder is charged with murder, burglary of a dwelling with assault and violating a domestic violence injunction. If Blackwelder is found guilty of the murder charge, he will receive a mandatory life sentence. ...more

May 20, 2008

A convicted killer faces a new murder charge after the severed limbs of a South Florida jeweler were found in trash bins throughout a Miami suburb. ...more

May 9, 2008