Investigators hoped to confirm today the identity of a woman whose body was found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. ...more

July 20, 2008

Tremendous advances in technology haven't replaced two basic ingredients worthy of every homeowner's disaster kit: the lowly bag that can be filled with sand and the tough tape designed to connect duct pipes. ...more

July 1, 2008

Sarasota police have arrested a 29-year-old man, charging him with murder, robbery and false imprisonment in the March 20 slaying of a motel owner. ...more

June 6, 2008

Manatee County detectives arrested two men late Saturday night in connection with a burglary that turned deadly last week for a 74-year-old woman. ...more

May 25, 2008

A 57-year-old St. Petersburg woman is accused of binding an 8-year-old boy's hands and legs with duct tape, and flogging him, an arrest report states. ...more

February 17, 2008

Hours before Michael Lee King was captured Thursday, police entered his North Port home, prompted by a harrowing 911 call in which Denise Amber Lee could be heard crying and begging to be set free. ...more

January 22, 2008

A father was indicted Thursday in the slayings of two of his children, another child and the children's mother in her apartment almost three years ago. ...more

December 14, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - A man behind bars on charges he kidnapped and raped a woman last month now is accused of another sexual assault in July. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - Lucky, a 2-year-old mutt belonging to a woman gunned down by her boyfriend, is en route to Buffalo, N.Y., to be reunited with the woman's daughter. ...more

November 8, 2007

Brittney Klodzinski refused to come back. The 14-year-old was scared of her mother's boyfriend, Trevor McGinty, and his violent streak that Brittney saw targeting her mother, Wendy Dusza. ...more

November 8, 2007