Citrus County sheriff's detectives are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who apparently ingested his father's prescription medication. ...more

August 14, 2009

The man who owned an 8-foot Burmese python that suffocated a little girl last month has been arrested on drug charges. ...more

August 8, 2009

Setting a trial date is proving elusive in the case of Eric James Tate, accused of raping and fatally injuring his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter. ...more

July 31, 2009

A man who authorities say was found dead while swimming with his family in Jupiter had been celebrating his wedding just days before. ...more

July 19, 2009

A second defendant charged in the 2007 murder of Bryan "Red" Fanning now has an October trial date. ...more

May 22, 2009

A two-vehicle accident Wednesday on State Road 70 in Highlands County claimed the lives of an adult and a small child. ...more

May 22, 2009

A two-vehicle accident Wednesday on State Road 70 in Highlands County claimed the lives of two people. ...more

May 21, 2009

Lakeland police are trying to determine the identity of a woman found suffocated to death. ...more

April 17, 2009

The brother-in-law of actress Katie Holmes was found dead in a home in Sarasota at age 48, officials say. ...more

April 16, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009