A jury convicted former youth minister Joshua Rosa of first-degree murder Monday in the strangulation of his 13-year-old neighbor. ...more

July 22, 2008

With the wails of the defendant's father audible from outside the packed courtroom this morning, a circuit judge sentenced a former youth minister at a Pentecostal church to life in prison without possibility of parole for murdering a 13-year-old. ...more

July 21, 2008

A Pinellas County teenager is recovering this week from a liver transplant just weeks after another hospital removed him from an organ waiting list, in part because of his status as a foster child. ...more

July 16, 2008

Thunderstorms drifted onshore from the Gulf of Mexico late Saturday and early Sunday morning, flooding streets in west Pasco County and forcing organizers to cancel an early morning triathlon in Pinellas County. ...more

July 14, 2008

A 72-year-old woman was treated for a fractured knee after her nephew beat her during a drunken rampage, deputies say. ...more

July 10, 2008

Crime Stoppers has increased the reward for information leading to a conviction in the shooting death of a Davenport convenience store clerk. ...more

June 28, 2008

Fifty-five years ago, I started on a journey that would take me all over the world...... ...more

June 28, 2008

Crime Stoppers has increased the reward for information leading to a conviction in the shooting death of a Davenport convenience store clerk. ...more

June 27, 2008

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June 21, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $15,250 bond, after sheriff's investigators say he burglarized his aunt's Leisure Lakes home three times by crawling through her doggie door. Michael Wayne Britt, 31, of 2105 U.S. 27 S., Lot 339, was charged with three counts of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and one count of petty theft first offense. According to sheriff's deputy Michael Weed's report, between May 8 and May 26, Britt pushed his 6-foot 150 pound frame through a doggie door in the rear of a home belonging to his aunt in the 900 block of Wildflower Street in Leisure Lakes. ...more

June 12, 2008