TAMPA - A man released from state prison last month after serving five years for armed robbery wound up in jail Sunday after police said he robbed a Shell gas station. ...more

December 10, 2007

Byron Hileman limped back into the courtroom after a brief conference with his client, 86-year-old flying ace-turned-felon Abner Aust. ...more

December 5, 2007

BARTOW - Abner Aust, an 86-year-old retired Air Force colonel and certified fighter ace, fired his attorney today and was granted an extension for his sentencing on a probation violation charge in connection with two attempts to have his wife killed. ...more

December 4, 2007

WAUCHULA — Trucker Jean Claude Meus' fight to have his 15-year prison sentence overturned or reduced received a big boost Wednesday afternoon. In a written opinion, Judge Douglas A. Wallace, of the Florida Second District Court of Appeals, suggested that Meus received ineffective counsel during his postconviction trial in 2005 at the Hardee County Courthouse. "(The opinion) was written very precisely," said defense attorney John H. Trevena, of Largo, who represents Meus. "Given its wording, I believe that it will give Mr. Meus an opportunity for a new trial." Meus is currently sitting in a state prison after being convicted of vehicular homicide in 2003 for the much publicized death of Nona Moore, 40, and her 8-year-old daughter Lindsey. The accident happened in 2001. During Meus' criminal trial, prosecutors said that he fell asleep at the wheel of his tractor-trailer, driving through a stop sign and eventually overturning his vehicle onto Moore's van at Seven Mile Point, just outside of Wauchula. Prosecutors maintained that Meus fell asleep shortly before the accident, but Meus maintained throughout his trial that a vehicle had cut him off, forcing him to swerve into Moore's van. ...more

November 30, 2007

Joanne Gavlick said she thought of the $13,000 as "God's money" when she withdrew it from her pension to go away and write a spirituality book. ...more

November 21, 2007

TAMPA - Joanne Gavlick said she thought of the $13,000 as "God's money" when she withdrew it from her pension to go away and write a spirituality book. ...more

November 20, 2007

In 2006, St. Petersburg police thought a newspaper delivery man was fatally shot during a violent home invasion above his apartment. ...more

November 16, 2007

Rick Tocchet still has time to serve before he will be allowed back behind an NHL bench. ...more

November 2, 2007

Collectors advertise images from Col. Abner Aust on the Internet - $35 for a picture of him standing on a P-51 Mustang during World War II, $100 for an autographed letter. ...more

October 16, 2007

LAKELAND - Collectors advertise images from Col. Abner Aust on the Internet - $35 for a picture of him standing on a P-51 Mustang during World War II, $100 for an autographed letter. ...more

October 15, 2007