Weapons of choice in a pair of unrelated attacks Thursday night included a hammer and a kitchen pan. Two people were arrested and one was hospitalized with a broken nose, authorities said. ...more

March 13, 2009

An apparent gang-related fight at Central High School left a student badly beaten on Thursday. ...more

March 6, 2009

Three men hired to help attack a Sarasota man's in-laws have been sentenced to federal prison terms. ...more

February 23, 2009

A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two babies and a female worker to death and seriously wounding 12 others. ...more

January 24, 2009

Ryan Young told a judge Thursday that he did not wish to take the stand in his own defense. ...more

January 23, 2009

Anger and desperation pushed Jennifer Roma to chase the man who swiped her mother's purse, knocked her down and left her dying on the pavement of the T.J. Maxx parking lot. ...more

January 4, 2009

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office detectives have charged a woman with stabbing another woman Thursday night. ...more

December 19, 2008

RIVERVIEW -- A violent attack in the parking lot of the just-opened Green Iguana Bar & Grill in Riverview early this morning left one man critically injured and another being sought by Hillsborough County deputies. It was the bar's grand opening. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA - Prosecutors called a parade of police officers and crime scene investigators to the witness stand this morning, hoping to establish the forensic foundation to convict Amos Mequel Busby of kidnapping a woman and repeatedly raping her for three hours. ...more

December 16, 2008

A woman repeatedly raped after friends left her at a South Tampa bar in 2005 admitted today from the witness stand that details of the night are still sketchy. ...more

December 15, 2008