Moments after a jury convicted Khalid Ali Pasha on two counts of first-degree murder, Pasha told the judge he was through fighting. ...more

November 1, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. The wife of a Navy reservist, a former Tampa woman, was sentenced to life in prison today after pleading guilty to murder in the death of her husband, who was shot by her then-teenage lover and his friend. Monique Berkley, 27, entered the plea in Wake County Superior Court in an agreement with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. The former Monique Wheeler attended the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, where she was a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist who made the honor roll a dozen times and planned to study pre-med and psychology at the University of Florida. Her father owned the Tampa burger joint Goody Goody. ...more

September 26, 2007

The mother of a young girl known as 'Precious Doe' pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, whose decapitated remains were found in a park and left unidentified for four years. ...more

September 14, 2007