POINCIANA - When 22-year-old Solymarie Roman was found slain her body burned in a northeast Polk County orange grove, suspicion quickly focused on her boyfriend, Mourad Balzourt. ...more

November 29, 2007

TAMPA - Investigators who went to search the home of a registered sex offender for evidence of Internet child pornography found the suspect naked at his computer, according to a federal complaint. ...more

November 27, 2007

A Hillsborough County deputy has resigned amid allegations he beat a suspect on the head with a pair of handcuffs and then punched the man after he was restrained, according to sheriff's documents. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County deputy has resigned amid allegations he beat a suspect on the head with a pair of handcuffs and then punched the man after he was restrained, according to sheriff's documents. ...more

October 31, 2007

As official Washington argues over the spiraling price of the war in Iraq, consider this: Outfitting a soldier for battle costs a hundred times more now than it did in World War II. It was $170 then, is about $17,500 now, and could be an estimated $28,000 to $60,000 by the middle of the next decade. ...more

October 3, 2007

Former President Alberto Fujimori, awaiting trial in Peru on seven charges of corruption and human rights violations, is being held in poor conditions, his attorney and daughter said Monday. ...more

September 25, 2007

CORTEZ - An off-duty Manatee County sheriff's deputy was held at gunpoint and handcuffed by a police officer investigating a disturbance between two deputies who had been speeding through this coastal village, police reports show. ...more

September 23, 2007