SEBRING — While John Milone was on vacation in Denmark this summer, a family of four stayed in his Sebring home, sleeping in his bed and eating at his dining room table. The family went on an airboat ride through Arbuckle Creek, laid on the beaches of Miami and enjoyed Disney theme parks, while John and Lyudmila Milone explored Copenhagen and stayed at the family's home there. The Milones coordinated the swap through Home Exchange, a Web site that facilitates 100,000 successful home exchanges worldwide and features about 15,000 listings in more than 100 countries. The concept gained popularity after the 2006 romantic comedy staring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet, who trade a Los Angeles' mansion and cottage in England to escape men in their lives. John Milone knew about the program long before the movie, though, and has been doing home exchanges for nine years. ...more

October 13, 2007

The man who investigators say abducted and killed a Seffner woman and left her body in a burning stolen van has been brought back to Hillsborough County from a holding cell in the Panhandle. ...more

October 4, 2007

TAMPA The man who investigators say abducted and killed a Seffner woman and left her body in a burning stolen van has been brought back to Hillsborough County from a holding cell in the Panhandle. Kenneth Ray Jackson, 25, arrived from Franklin County and was booked in the Orient Road Jail with no bail set. He is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree arson in the slaying of Cuc Thu Tran, 50. ...more

October 3, 2007

Two weeks after a Seffner woman went for a jog and wound up dead in a burning van, Hillsborough County sheriff's investigators tracked a suspect to the Panhandle and arrested him Thursday. ...more

September 28, 2007

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's office has arrested Kenneth R. Jackson, 25, of Seffner in the killing of Cuc Thu Tran. The 50-year-old woman disappeared from the street where she was jogging Sept. 13 and was found 15 miles away inside a burning van in the Gibsonton area. ...more

September 27, 2007

The city council has given initial approval to a beer and wine license for a proposed sports bar on Nebraska Avenue. ...more

September 26, 2007

GIBSONTON - The body of a woman found inside of a burning van on Thursday was positively identified today as that of missing Seffner resident Cuc Thu Tran, authorities said. ...more

September 16, 2007

A host of friends and relatives of slaying victims whose cases remain unsolved made an emotional appeal to the community Saturday. ...more

September 16, 2007

Homicide detectives don't yet know why Seffner resident Cuc Thu Tran was killed or how she died. ...more

September 16, 2007