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The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. Alabama carried out the first American execution using nitrogen [...]

The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. Alabama carried out the first American execution using nitrogen [...]

The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a lower court had violated the right of the victim’s brother to have been notified of and to attend a hearing. A Maryland [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE SACRAMENTO -- Late in the evening on Jan. 27, 2004, four teenagers broke into an elderly neighbor's house in the Southern California town of Perris, looking for [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Neighbors knew there was trouble between Iris Hernandez-Morales and her ex-boyfriend. They sometimes saw police cars outside the West Tampa house. They knew she had [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Francis Pach worked as a deputy for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office for 27 years before retiring in 2000. Four years later, his former employer [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Police have released more information about the capture of Timothy C. Blackwelder, a 24-year-old Tampa man accused in the shooting death of George Anthony Stewart, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Police have released more information about the capture of Timothy C. Blackwelder, a 24-year-old Tampa man accused in the shooting death of George Anthony Stewart, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Dorsie Clayton France never had his day in court to face charges that he killed and buried a woman in his back yard. Jail deputies [...]

Byline: REBECCA CATALANELLO; ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- A teacher's aide faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of a 16-month-old girl. Investigators say Aurelio Gonzalez, 29, was babysitting toddler [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- A few days before he was shot to death, Marcus D. Johnson posed an odd question to his mother as the two watched a movie. [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Jeffrey Dudney rented a gun with ease at a shooting range last week. It was perfectly legal, even though he was accused earlier this month [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- From childhood, Troy McPeak guided and protected his big brother. He calmed his fear of the dark by holding his hand. He helped him improve [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Homicide prosecutor Jay Pruner turned up in an unusual place this week: trying a battery case in county court. This was no run-of-the-mill misdemeanor. In [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Rene Brewster always wanted a better life for her sister, Donna M. Sheffield.As a young child, Brewster left her family to live with her grandmother. Sheffield stayed [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Ricardo Meana made a name for himself as an lawyer devoted to the poor, a man who believed farm workers deserved fair treatment.But now Meana's good name [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE A 29-year-old Tampa man has been accused of fatally stabbing his longtime partner and stealing his car, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Anaye Suma Mann [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE In April, police accused Orthia Porter of killing Antonio Cummings after an argument. Porter, 26, pulled out a handgun and sprayed a car with bullets, police say. [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE In April, police accused Orthia Porter of killing Antonio Cummings after an argument. Porter, 26, pulled out a handgun and sprayed a car with bullets, police say. [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Richard Lynch thinks the answer to his son's murder is in the cards, quite literally.Chad Elliott Lynch stares out from the 10 of diamonds, spades, clubs and [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Richard Lynch thinks the answer to his son's murder is in the cards, quite literally.Chad Elliott Lynch stares out from the 10 of diamonds, spades, clubs and [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Sonya Hannor knows her baby's father is accused of killing the child, but she promises that Demetrius Blackmon had loving, attentive parents.'We have nothing to hide,' she [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Bernard Moore knew police suspected him of fatally shooting his wife's lover, Oliver J. Williams.Moore told police he had hired an attorney. He refused to speak with [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE What bothers Lakendrick Mills most about her brother's slaying is the way the killer left him to die. About a week ago, Matthew Robert Mills III was [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Long after Sarah Lunde's murder, the folks at her small Ruskin church haven't forgotten the joy she brought to their lives. 'We felt like she was one [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Matthew Robert Mills III should be getting ready for a big party tonight. It would have been his 21st birthday. Instead, someone must plan his funeral. Police [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Shernita Jane Butler suspected Kenyon Floyd was seeing someone else, so the 17-year-old girl confronted her boyfriend in her cousin's front yard. The argument took a deadly [...]