An unnamed prison inmate who gave key testimony that led to a conviction in a Manatee County murder - all $3,000 of it - to local charities in the name of the homicide victim. ...more

June 30, 2008

TAMPA An unnamed prison inmate who gave key testimony that led to a conviction in a Manatee County murder case has donated his reward - all $3,000 of it - to local charities in the name of the homicide victim. ...more

June 29, 2008

After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. ...more

June 24, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. Then last November, Chanthavong's mother, a nursing assistant who single-handedly raised $20,000 in reward money, died of brain cancer, less than two months after she was diagnosed. Sompong Chanthavong was the family member who worked most furiously to see that her son's killer was brought to justice, sometimes haranguing investigators for their failure to do so. Now her youngest son, Dar, has taken up the mantle. ...more

June 23, 2008

A.J. Stathas went to bed Friday night full of hope. "Daddy," the 10-year-old said to his father, Allen, owner of Cars Unlimited at 201. W. Fletcher Ave., "wake me up at midnight. We'll drive down, and they will be there." ...more

June 15, 2008

A.J. Stathas went to bed last night full of hope. ...more

June 14, 2008

The wife of a former FBI agent thought to be missing in Iran said Friday she is offering a $5,000 reward for information on her husband after more than a year of silence on his whereabouts. ...more

May 24, 2008

To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money. ...more

May 18, 2008

Investigators do not think that two recent horse slayings in eastern Hillsborough County are related. ...more

February 9, 2008

Investigators do not think that two recent horse slayings in eastern Hillsborough County are related. ...more

February 8, 2008