"Bat Man" or "Bat Guy" or "Bat Boy" — that's what they called him. ...more

March 3, 2009

A body found Sunday evening in Ruskin had no obvious signs of trauma, though it's up to the medical examiner's office to determine an official cause of death, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

March 2, 2009

Police and medical examiners who thought a Kansas City, Mo., man died of natural causes have changed their minds — after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head. ...more

February 26, 2009

Receiving a phone call saying a bus has crashed through your business is not how someone wants to start their work day. ...more

February 26, 2009

Jurors in a federal death penalty trial viewed photographs this morning of the scene of an execution-style slaying in a Bartow drug house in October 2006. ...more

February 25, 2009

The new 31,500-square-foot Hillsborough County Medical Examiner complex has its grand opening Thursday. ...more

February 25, 2009

Hillsborough County is jumping on the Twitter trend, sending out county news via the social media service under the name @HCNews. So far, there's a small following -- 25 people -- but more could be flowing soon, given tweets from the county such as this one: ...more

February 25, 2009

How much we make (or don't make) is one of those personal bits of information we like to keep to ourselves. ...more

February 25, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. ...more

February 5, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, a Pasco County jury deliberated for more than two hours before finding Lutz not guilty of delivery of a controlled substance. ...more

February 4, 2009