Randy Nowak told a judge today that he never wanted any harm to come to the IRS officer he tried to have killed. ...more

March 5, 2009

Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial has been tentatively set for Oct. 12. ...more

March 3, 2009

Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial has been tentatively set for Oct. 12. ...more

March 2, 2009

A Polk County man has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in the death of a 25-year-old gay man. ...more

February 27, 2009

Dorian Dillard, one of the two men charged with killing two homeless men in St. Petersburg in 2007, told his defense attorney he didn't want the case to go to trial because he didn't want the families of the victims to experience any more heartache, his defense attorney said in court today. ...more

February 25, 2009

A 17-year-old Orlando teenager pleaded guilty this morning to charges he fled from police after a Tampa robbery last year and then smashed the car into two utility poles in St. Petersburg, killing his mother, who was riding as a passenger. ...more

February 25, 2009

A teenager pleaded guilty today to charges he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl on a school bus parked at Dixie Hollins High School in Pinellas County in May, according to authorities. ...more

February 24, 2009

To the prosecution, what happened in a Bartow crack house in October 2006 is clear: two or three people went inside to rob some drug dealers. ...more

February 24, 2009

The Japan-based operator of a cargo vessel that dumped oily sludge into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean was sentenced today to three years of probation and fined $1.75 million. ...more

February 24, 2009

The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. ...more

February 20, 2009