A judge agreed Thursday to remove an electronic monitor from a second suspect in the Walker Middle School rape case in anticipation of the teenager's returning to public school. ...more

December 18, 2009

A judge today agreed to remove an electronic monitor from a second suspect in the Walker Middle School rape case in anticipation of the teenager returning to public school. ...more

December 17, 2009

Tests of DNA taken from items seized in the Walker Middle School rape case didn't find matches for any of the four teenage defendants, according to a report released today. ...more

December 2, 2009

CLEVELAND (AP) - Six badly decomposed bodies found at the home of a convicted rapist facing a new rape allegation were females and all were homicide victims, the coroner's office said today. ...more

November 1, 2009

A former Walker Middle School student charged with petty theft while out on bail in a rape case will be freed from jail. ...more

October 28, 2009

Testimony began today in the trial of a former youth baseball volunteer accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in May. ...more

March 25, 2009

For two years, Pasco detectives have searched for a fourth suspect in a rape case in which a woman was held at gunpoint and repeatedly assaulted for three days. ...more

January 23, 2009

Deputies continued the search Monday night for an inmate who escaped from Falkenburg Road Jail as he was escorted to a medical clinic. ...more

October 27, 2008

A man wanted by police in a Haines City rape case turned himself in Tuesday and was released today on bail. Hazell Stoudemire Jr., a registered sex offender, turned himself in at the Polk County Jail, Capt. Mervin Stewart said. He was charged with sexual battery, kidnapping and aggravated assault, all felonies, and battery, a misdemeanor. ...more

October 9, 2008

Regarding "Details Emerge On Library Attack, Victim" (front page, June 7): I read with sadness the front-page article about the suspect in the Bloomingdale Library rape case. I also read the heartbreaking Steve Otto column about the innocent victim. She had the world by the tail until a monster came along and brutally snatched it all away in a few horrifying moments. As a mother and a grandmother of six girls I can only imagine the pain of this family. Our quiet, friendly community will never be the same. ...more

June 11, 2008