Hours after Sarah Michelle Lunde was reported missing, investigators zeroed in on David Lee Onstott as the chief suspect – partially because Sarah's brother fingered Onstott as having been to their house in Ruskin and partially because Onstott failed a lie-detector test. ...more

August 28, 2008

Sarah Michelle Lunde's mother asked a judge on Friday to put David Lee Onstott in prison for the rest of his life. ...more

August 23, 2008

Clearwater police say they have arrested a 19-year-old man for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, and a 21-year-old woman who allowed the relationship to happen. ...more

August 11, 2008

Manatee County detectives are investigating an inmate's apparent suicide Monday night at the Manatee County Jail. ...more

August 5, 2008

TAMPA — A lizard tattoo on the small of a teacher's back; a ladybug on the lower left side of her belly; a flower on her right. Several photographs of Stephanie Ragusa were released today by the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office. Prosecutors are not commenting on the pictures but sheriff's office reports have said the photographs were used to corroborate statements given by a teenager who claimed to have had sex repeatedly with Ragusa. She was his teacher at Davidsen Middle School. ...more

July 8, 2008

TAMPA - A 45-year-old Tampa man has been charged with having a five-year sexual relationship with a girl, starting when she was 13 years old, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

June 5, 2008

The trial of the two remaining suspects in the beating of a man popularly known as "The Walker" has been pushed back to August. ...more

May 30, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY — A man accused of having a longtime sexual relationship with his biological daughter, even having two children with her, faces 12 additional counts of incest. ...more

February 19, 2008

Two male teachers were removed from Hillsborough County classrooms this week amid unrelated allegations of inappropriate conduct with female students. ...more

February 1, 2008

The former music teacher and band director at Pasco Middle School faces between 22 and 45 years in prison after admitting Monday to carrying on a sexual relationship with a former student. ...more

January 10, 2008