A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death. ...more

November 3, 2009

The death investigation that began Thursday morning at 4401 Shamrock St., in northwest Sebring, has now been ruled a murder-suicide by the medical examiner's office. ...more

October 30, 2009

Four days before a hearing about the roughly $18,000 he owed his ex-wife in child support, Robert Cecil Laird jumped to his death from the Sunshine Skyway bridge. ...more

October 13, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives have released the name of a couple involved in a May 31 murder-suicide. ...more

June 5, 2009

A Lakeland teenager is the sole survivor in an apparent murder-suicide that left his father, mother and two younger brothers dead, authorities say. ...more

May 4, 2009

Investigators are on the scene of an apparent murder-suicide in a Palm Harbor home, Pinellas County deputies say. ...more

April 1, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009

A murder-suicide at a Dundee home in Polk County on Dec. 20 has claimed the life of a third victim. ...more

December 27, 2008

Friends and family of the late Heather Hatley Rimmer are planning a fundraiser to help brighten the future for her two young daughters. ...more

November 21, 2008

Friends and family of the late Heather Hatley Rimmer are planning a fundraiser to help brighten the future for her two young daughters. ...more

November 19, 2008