LAKELAND - Budwin Brace and his wife Loma divorced just days before she was found beaten to death 21 years ago inside her Lakeland home. Suspicion quickly focused on Brace, then a successful Pasco County builder. He was later convicted of forging his wife's signature on documents surrendering ownership of property they owned in common. He served more than a year in state prison. ...more

February 1, 2008

SEBRING — Two suspects are cooperating with Sebring police investigators in an investigation into 13 burglaries in the downtown Sebring area. ...more

February 1, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - About an hour before authorities say Michael King abducted Denise Lee from her North Port home, he was at a Sarasota County gun range with another man, practicing his shooting with a 9mm pistol, the same type of weapon that killed Lee. ...more

January 24, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. Two bail bondsman involved in a confrontation last week at the Pasco Tax Collector's Office in which the man they were trying to apprehend brandished a pistol are facing criminal charges. ...more

January 16, 2008

For the second day in a row and the second time in three months, Temple Terrace police searched a South Tampa home Friday for evidence in the disappearance of a social worker. ...more

January 12, 2008

TAMPA - For the second day in a row and the second time in three months, Temple Terrace police searched a South Tampa home for evidence in the disappearance of a social worker. ...more

January 11, 2008

For four months, Tampa police Detectives Scott Guffey and John Haggart drove through the city in any car they could find, trying to track a group they suspected of stealing high-priced rims and tires for private buyers. ...more

January 4, 2008

The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 21, 2007

TAMPA - Police charged a 19-year-old man with felony first-degree murder today, saying he fatally stabbed a city bus driver who considered him an acquaintance. ...more

December 20, 2007

BARTOW - The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007