The man charged with shooting Samuel Tiller during a November 2007 burglary of the victim's home pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder. ...more

January 24, 2009

An 18-year-old St. Petersburg man who has been charged in three robberies – in one of them his parents are accused of being the getaway drivers – is now charged with fatally shooting a man. ...more

January 23, 2009

A 43-year-old man was charged with attempted second-degree murder Thursday afternoon after police said he tried several times to stab another person with a kitchen knife. ...more

January 22, 2009

Max Horn fired six shots into Joseph Martell, killing the 34-year-old in the crowded streets of last year's Chasco Fiesta. ...more

January 15, 2009

A Lakeland man was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for his role in the March 2006 robbery of a Dover brothel in which a man was killed. ...more

January 12, 2009

A transient turned himself in today, saying he had strangled another man after the pair had spent the day drinking on New Year's Eve, the Pinellas Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 8, 2009

The man who led authorities on an eight-hour manhunt through Plant City in December pleaded not guilty to 14 felony charges today. ...more

January 6, 2009

Nicholas Altamuro and Sharon Sprout share at least one characteristic - they're violent criminals. ...more

December 24, 2008

Pasco Circuit Judge Thane Covert sentenced Sharon Sprout to life in prison this morning for the 2004 slaying of her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Candiano. ...more

December 23, 2008

Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos," was cleared Monday in New York of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 23, 2008