TAMPA - A 54-year-old convicted sex offender who authorities say tried to persuade another sex offender to help him find a young girl to pose for sexually explicit photographs is set to be sentenced this morning in federal court. ...more

October 19, 2007

A babysitter who had an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl pleasure her with a sex toy was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 10 years of sex offender probation. ...more

October 17, 2007

TAMPA A babysitter who had an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl pleasure her with a sex toy was sentenced today to 20 years in prison and 10 years of sex offender probation. ...more

October 16, 2007

School District's Forum? Regarding 'Student Safety Paramount At King High' (Other Views, Oct. 8): ...more

October 15, 2007

William Joe Mitchell, a registered sex offender sought in connection with the abduction of a Bartow girl he met on the Internet, was arrested without incident about 11:30 a.m. today ...more

October 6, 2007

David Lee Onstott cannot get a fair trial in Tampa next week on charges of escape and failure to register as a sex offender because of publicity over a charge he murdered a 13-year-old girl, his attorney argued today. ...more

September 18, 2007

TAMPA - A 35-year-old man apprehended Saturday, two hours after he allegedly forced his way into a residence and robbed the two occupants, also was wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Ruskin man in July, Tampa police said. ...more

September 15, 2007

A fugitive sex offender wanted in two states was charged Saturday with strangling a woman and leaving her body under a bed at a Times Square hotel. ...more

September 2, 2007