TAMPA - To the disruption of various court appearances, Robert Sinclaire Lee has cut himself with a smuggled razor and rubbed feces on his face. Prosecutors maintain he is faking mental illness and hope to convict him this week on charges of attempted murder, robbery and aggravated assault. ...more

February 11, 2008

Two teenagers are accused of using a knife and a handgun to rob a friend of his prescription medicine. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - A masked burglar who used a bat to beat a victim wound up in St. Joseph's Hospital overnight after the victim chased him down and used the same bat on him, officials say. ...more

January 17, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies have arrested a man found with a suitcase full of property taken during a burglary today, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 11, 2007

A man dubbed the "dinnertime bandit" for allegedly robbing wealthy homes - often while residents dined - was brought before a judge Friday for arraignment, nine years after he fled to Europe. ...more

November 24, 2007

The Florida attorney general's office said Monday that a Hillsborough County man, arrested this year and charged with running a mortgage fraud scheme, has pleaded guilty to several fraud charges and will be sentenced next month. ...more

November 5, 2007

SEMINOLE - Two men have been arrested in a home invasion in which one of the victims was beaten on the head with a handgun, police records state. Wednesday afternoon, Jack Tolhurst, 23, of Seminole, was taken into custody in connection with the midday robbery Sept. 22 in the 10000 block of 114th Avenue North, jail records show. ...more

November 1, 2007

Thomas Paul Ludlum, 42, of Lake Placid, entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon in the Highlands County Courthouse to counts of first-degree grand theft and the burglary of a structure for his 2006 New Year's Eve theft of a Highlands Independent Bank ATM. ...more

October 11, 2007

The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. ...more

September 26, 2007

It was just a little nudge, barely worthy of being called a hit. But there had to be something to it if Lightning RW Andre Roy yelped with pain and crumpled to the ice in agony. ...more

September 19, 2007