They never made it to their one-month anniversary. ...more

September 25, 2009

A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with the car collision that killed sheriff's Capt. Bierwiler. ...more

July 21, 2009

Lake Wales police arrested two robbery suspects Thursday night, including one whose death penalty conviction for a 1998 murder of a citrus grower had been overturned, leading to his release. ...more

January 23, 2009

Brandon Michael Evans, who was convicted in 1996 of two counts of third-degree murder, was arrested again this morning. Evans, 28, of Tampa, was arrested at 12:11 a.m. today at Livingston and Bearss avenues. He was charged with violating probation and misdemeanor domestic battery. ...more

January 20, 2009

A suspected drug dealer who hit a car last year while fleeing police, killing a mother of three, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. ...more

January 12, 2009

A convicted murderer's life sentence was reduced to 10 years on Thursday. ...more

December 24, 2008

The state Supreme Court has refused to rehear the appeal of a man convicted in the 1998 murder of Vicki Robinson. ...more

September 24, 2008

Profit, addiction fuel pill sales ...more

August 22, 2008

A father who wanted to "teach his son to party right" was charged with third-degree murder Friday in connection with the teenager's overdose death. ...more

August 2, 2008

Jon Whispel wears his regrets on his arms, tattooed in a skull and two masks. The grinning skull sits high enough on his bicep to hide beneath the short sleeves of his blue prison shirt. He bought the tattoo in Ybor City a decade ago today with money from a woman he had helped kill hours earlier. ...more

June 27, 2008