SARASOTA - Police say arsonists started a fire at a home on 24th Street in an attempt to kill a man who they suspected of shooting an aspiring boxer and his girlfriend over the weekend. Related Links: ...more

March 12, 2009

"Rick, put the gun down,'' a woman says, her words captured on a 911 call made on the last day of her life. Investigators say the voice was that of Elizabeth Evans after her estranged husband, Patrick Evans, burst into her South Pasadena condominium on Dec. 20 and found her and Gerald Taylor, whom she was dating. ...more

January 12, 2009

A high-profile Pinellas Park murder investigation is the subject of a television show airing on the Oxygen cable channel Thursday night. ...more

January 6, 2009

Jennifer Johnson, the 31-year-old mother found slain in a vacant house in Lakeland this week, called 911 for help from the trunk of a car, according to her family and police. ...more

November 20, 2008

A body unearthed late Wednesday behind a partially burned home is slaying victim Theresa Jones. ...more

June 20, 2008

HOLIDAY - A body unearthed late Wednesday behind a partially burned home is slaying victim Theresa Jones. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING — Details into the Avon Park attempted murder investigation for suspect Paul Dion Hamilton were released Monday by authorities. According to a probable cause narrative provided by the Avon Park Police Department, Hamilton reportedly attacked a female victim and mother of his child, age 27, on Feb. 10, with a machete after a verbal argument. ...more

February 19, 2008

"Extracurricular Activities," by Maggie Barbieri (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24) ...more

December 30, 2007