TAMPA - A former carnival worker pleaded guilty today, picking up three life sentences on charges of murder, armed robbery and burglary with battery. If convicted at trial, Jarvis Sylvester Tabron, 36, could have been sentenced to death. ...more

June 16, 2008

Pasco sheriff's detectives made two arrests Thursday in connection with last month's home invasion robbery during which two deaf seniors were bound and gagged. ...more

June 13, 2008

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of two men in the home-invasion robbery of a deaf couple who were bound and gagged. ...more

June 3, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of two men in the home-invasion robbery of a deaf couple who were bound and gagged. ...more

June 2, 2008

It was a half-hour a deaf couple likely won't ever forget. At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, visitors rang a special doorbell that summoned Ralph Prezioso, 86, to his front door in the 5000 block of Ixora Street. ...more

May 31, 2008

Dozens of men and women swarm over the mounds of debris of this ruined city, an eerie replay of the early days after China's devastating earthquake. ...more

May 30, 2008

SEBRING — Good writers learn it right away – write about what you know – and Sebring snowbird Kathryn Neff Perry seemingly learned that lesson well. Perry recently published her second novel, "Boone's Creek – Almost Home." Several locations in the novel should be familiar to Highlands County residents, including Lake Jackson, The Kenilworth Lodge, Chicanes and the sheriff's office. "I love Sebring," said Perry."That's where my heart is." ...more

May 25, 2008

A burglar's knife was no match Saturday morning for Walter Funk's wrench and pluck, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 11, 2008

SEMINOLE A would-be burglar's knife was no match Saturday morning for Walter Funk's wrench and pluck, the Pinellas sheriff's office reported. ...more

May 10, 2008

The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt. ...more

February 1, 2008