The spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office has been relieved of his regular duties pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of violence involving his stepdaughter. ...more

December 10, 2007

John Benjamin spent the last hours of his life high on crack and begging for money to pay off a $300 drug debt. ...more

November 15, 2007

It's anyone's guess where Stefanie Francique could be more than a week after she vanished. ...more

November 14, 2007

If Daniel Parbel didn't kill John Benjamin, as he contends, he'll need a good answer to one key question: ...more

November 14, 2007

It's anyone's guess where Stefanie Francique could be more than a week after she vanished. But here's what she left behind: a doting little daughter with fuzzy - sometimes braided hair- and an enormous smile. ...more

November 13, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - Opening statements are to begin this afternoon in Daniel Parbel's first-degree murder trial. Two years ago, authorities say, the Hudson man killed John J. Benjamin, who owed money to the stepdaughter of then-Port Richey police Chief Bill Sager. ...more

November 13, 2007

John Benjamin was killed about the time he seemed to be getting a handle on his life. ...more

November 13, 2007

SEBRING — Dale Roger Leland was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to six and a half years in prison as friends and family members gave testimony, vouching for the man they said was an "outstanding" man and former church deacon. ...more

November 1, 2007

Moments after a jury convicted Khalid Ali Pasha on two counts of first-degree murder, Pasha told the judge he was through fighting. ...more

November 1, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. The wife of a Navy reservist, a former Tampa woman, was sentenced to life in prison today after pleading guilty to murder in the death of her husband, who was shot by her then-teenage lover and his friend. Monique Berkley, 27, entered the plea in Wake County Superior Court in an agreement with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. The former Monique Wheeler attended the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, where she was a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist who made the honor roll a dozen times and planned to study pre-med and psychology at the University of Florida. Her father owned the Tampa burger joint Goody Goody. ...more

September 26, 2007