"Heat Lightning," by John Sanford (Putnam's Sons, $26.95) ...more

December 14, 2008

"Heat Lightning," by John Sanford (Putnam's Sons, $26.95) ...more

September 28, 2008

Barbara Freiberg went to her daughter's mobile home May 12 after a babysitter called to say Freiberg's grandchildren had not been dropped off. ...more

August 16, 2008

Barbara Freiberg went to her daughter's mobile home May 12 after a babysitter called to say her grandchildren hadn't been dropped off. ...more

August 14, 2008

Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA – Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled today. While investigating the slayings, crime-scene technicians found a bloody footprint near Freiberg's body on the floor in the master bedroom of her trailer. ...more

May 27, 2008

Taliban militants tortured five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and then hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday. ...more

November 19, 2007

For the mother of Scott Helvenston, the Iraqi government's decision Monday to banish security firm Blackwater USA came nearly four years too late. ...more

September 18, 2007