A worthless-check charge against former Pasco County Sheriff Jim Gillum was dropped this week in part because the landlord who made the complaint never officially tried to cash it. ...more

January 19, 2008

Using the Internet to sell worthless art, a Wesley Chapel man bilked at least 40 people nationwide in the past 12 months, Tampa police said Wednesday. ...more

January 17, 2008

For months after a pregnant 20-year-old Marine accused a colleague of rape, her family says, she continued to work alongside her attacker and endured harassment at Camp Lejeune. ...more

January 13, 2008

Law & Order police news briefs. ...more

January 10, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - When he was first questioned about the crash that killed a 45-year-old woman in May 2002, Landon Lane Luepkes told police he had recently hit something but it was a "large dog." ...more

January 10, 2008

A drifter accused of kidnapping and decapitating a 24-year-old hiker in Georgia is now a suspect in the slaying of a Florida woman whose body was found last month in a national forest, authorities said Wednesday. ...more

January 10, 2008

A Hillsborough County deputy was arrested Wednesday on drug and theft charges. ...more

January 9, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A man featured on "America's Most Wanted" television show last year has been captured and now sits behind bars in Pasco County facing a DUI manslaughter charge. ...more

January 9, 2008

A drifter agreed to lead investigators to a hiker's decapitated body in the north Georgia woods after prosecutors pledged not to seek the death penalty against him, authorities said Tuesday. ...more

January 9, 2008

Authorities found the body of a missing hiker Monday, hours after a judge denied bail to the man accused of kidnapping her in the mountains of northern Georgia. ...more

January 8, 2008