It was a drug deal gone "very, very bad" and someone ended up dead, Pasco County Sheriff's Office Detective Lisa Shoneman said Wednesday, summing up a fatal shooting Sunday. ...more

July 24, 2008

It was a drug deal gone "very, very bad" and someone ended up dead, Pasco County Sheriff's Office Detective Lisa Shoneman said today, summing up a fatal shooting Sunday. By today, the three men detectives think are responsible for the slaying of Pedro Perez were behind bars and facing felony murder charges. ...more

July 23, 2008

A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion in 1965. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - Police have charged three people in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in November. LaBronx Bailey, 18, of Riverview, and two 16-year-olds, Tra Evan Lineberger of Riverview and Esteban Vincent Rivera of Valrico, were already in custody when Tampa police on Wednesday filed felony first-degree murder charges against each of them. ...more

June 19, 2008

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appearing for the first time since his capture five years ago, said he would welcome becoming a "martyr" after a judge warned Thursday that he faces the death penalty for his confessed role as mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ...more

June 6, 2008

A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted. ...more

May 11, 2008

Three weeks after her husband was shot to death outside the Groovy Mule bottle club, Sesily Coleman has been able to rest only three to four hours a night. ...more

February 10, 2008

SEBRING — A Highlands County grand jury formally indicted three suspects on murder charges Tuesday morning in connection to the November 2007 shooting of Samuel Tiller. ...more

February 5, 2008

Two men accused of robbing and beating an acquaintance and then stealing her car Friday are each in jail, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said. Gary Abbate and Gary Wayne Sharp, both of Brooksville, face attempted murder charges in the attack on 49-year-old Reba Myers at her home on Moon Road. They fled in Myers' blue 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer, the sheriff's office reported. ...more

February 3, 2008

AVON PARK — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office has issued a press release that Donald Alfonso Henry, 37, turned himself in to the Orlando Police Department Thursday on murder charges, in connection with an Avon Park murder. A warrant was issued for Henry earlier this month in connection with the shooting death of Hugh Andrew Marks. Marks' murder occurred on Jan. 7, near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Avenue, in Avon Park. ...more

February 1, 2008