One of east Pasco County's oldest pending criminal cases was resolved Thursday when Michael Louis Berencsi pleaded guilty to manslaughter. ...more

October 30, 2009

It was deathly still inside the brick home Lisa McLendon shared with her 28-year-old son, save for the flames that crackled as her body lay on a smoldering couch under a heap of burning clothes. ...more

March 12, 2009

Cartoon outrage is becoming tedious, as is the need to explain once more why being offended is not just cause for battle. ...more

March 2, 2009

The half-brother of an 18-year-old Ridgewood High School student whose body was found in a Dumpster outside a church last month has been arrested in the slaying. ...more

October 17, 2008

The half-brother of 18-year-old Ridgewood High student whose body was found in a Dumpster outside a church last month has been arrested in the slaying. ...more

October 16, 2008

Justina Altieri's story is rooted in tragedy. But it by no means defines her. ...more

July 2, 2008

Young woman rises above horrific night when she was a child. ...more

July 1, 2008

TAMPA - Police are asking area hospitals to be on the lookout for a man seeking treatment for a gunshot wound after Greyhound bus security personnel found bullets and a pool of blood on the floor of a stall in a bus station men's room this morning. ...more

June 24, 2008

Just before the tornado hit, the Boy Scouts were gathering on the porch of a shelter, playing cards and waiting out what many of them thought was just a pelting rain. In a matter of moments, a Scout leader, hearing a faint tornado siren, hurried them inside, and then, as he stared out the open door and saw the twister in the distance, ordered them to dive under tables, survivors said. ...more

June 13, 2008

Steven Kazmierczak had the look of a boyish graduate student, except for the disturbing tattoos that covered his arms. ...more

February 17, 2008