TAMPA - After eight hours of deliberation, a jury found 21-year-old Justin Jerrod Grayer guilty of murder today Friday in a home invasion robbery in which a man was bludgeoned to death with a hammer. ...more

September 5, 2008

About 3 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2006, Diogenes Vazquez awoke to loud banging and a commotion in the Plant City home he shared with four other men, he said on a witness stand Wednesday. ...more

September 4, 2008

Two Sebring men were free on bail Wednesday, after sheriff's investigators say their fingerprints and palm prints were found inside of separate marijuana grow houses taken down in June and July by the sheriff's Special Investigations Unit. ...more

September 4, 2008

About 3 a.m. Oct. 9, 2006, Diogenes Vazquez awoke to loud banging and a commotion in the Plant City home he shared with four other men, he said on a witness stand today. ...more

September 3, 2008

The underwater bomb seekers that Coast Guard and Navy officials say will keep Tampa Bay safe from explosives were on display today at the Port of St. Petersburg. ...more

August 28, 2008

Sarah Michelle Lunde's mother asked a judge on Friday to put David Lee Onstott in prison for the rest of his life. ...more

August 23, 2008

A statement David Lee Onstott made to law enforcement during his interrogation was thrown out. Jurors never heard it. The remaining evidence was scant: no DNA, no fingerprints. ...more

August 21, 2008

Nearly 31/2 years after hordes of volunteers helped law enforcement search east Hillsborough County for Sarah Michelle Lunde, a jury is set to decide whether David Lee Onstott is guilty of murdering the 13-year-old. ...more

August 20, 2008

DNA taken from the bodies of people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks helped lead investigators to Bruce Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of toxin in an Army lab, a government scientist said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The scene: The lobby outside the Berkeley Preparatory School auditorium. Crime scene tape forms a square around an empty picture frame, toppled wineglasses, footprints and a mysterious telephone number. ...more

July 7, 2008