The federal appeals court in Atlanta has declined to overturn lower court decisions against a new sentencing hearing for Patrick Charles Hannon, condemned to die for cutting a man's throat and fatally shooting another in Tampa 18 years ago. ...more

March 21, 2009

A Pinellas County cleaner was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty today to killing his boss and setting him and his vehicle on fire. ...more

March 20, 2009

Elalia Walker faced a horrible decision, prosecutors told jurors this morning: stay in a speeding van with the man who abducted and beat her or jump. ...more

February 17, 2009

No physical evidence links David Lee Onstott to the killing of a 13-year-old girl in 2005, defense attorneys said Wednesday during closing arguments. ...more

August 21, 2008

A jury of four men and eight women in the first-degree murder trial of Joshua Rosa deliberated for a little more than three hours Friday night before announcing they could go no further. ...more

July 19, 2008

Joshua Rosa's defense at his murder trial rested late this morning without the defendant, a former youth minister at a Pentecostal church, taking the stand. Rosa is charged with strangling 13-year-old Stephen Tomlinson in the woods near a park in Logan Gate Village, near Citrus Park, on Dec. 8, 2005. ...more

July 18, 2008

Anthony Hill, Sr., Blake ...more

June 1, 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

Anguished words from a murder victim's family came Thursday to a Hillsborough County courtroom from the Middle East. ...more

January 4, 2008