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Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- An undercover Tampa police officer shot and wounded a man early Monday during a prostitution sting in the Robles Park area. Officer Alberto [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- An undercover Tampa police officer shot and wounded a man early Monday during a prostitution sting in the Robles Park area. Officer Alberto [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GEORGE; ABBIE VANSICKLE; MOLLY MOORHEAD 'Real immediate' about life After her husband's death, Vickie Childers-Metzler felt her mind playing tricks. The widow of slain Detective Ricky Childers, would [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE EAST CANTON, Ohio -- A woman stares blankly from a photograph in Kayla Bennett's pink bedroom, near a bunk bed and a shelf of Barbie dolls still [...]

Byline: CASEY CORA; ABBIE VANSICKLE LUTZ -- Lisa Freiberg's mom worried after she heard nothing on Mother's Day. She broke into her daughter's locked mobile home Monday morning to find [...]

Byline: JARED LEONE; ABBIE VANSICKLE LUTZ -- The grandmother's screams brought a neighbor running to the scene of a tripleslaying. 'Zachary's dead, Zachary's dead,' the grandmother yelled, said her neighbor [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Deputies who book inmates into the Hillsborough jails should receive more training in stress management and dealing with people with mental health and substance abuse [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- BA man from Nigeria died in Tampa last week after an attack that left him in a coma. And Tuesday afternoon, a young man in [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- A man from Nigeria died in Tampa last week after an attack left him in a coma. And Tuesday afternoon, a young man in Philadelphia [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- Archie Thomas peered into a smoke-filled police car Monday morning and saw the trapped officer, her leg broken and wrist wrenched. He picked [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- Archie Thomas peered into a smoke-filled police car Monday morning and saw the trapped officer, her leg broken and wrist wrenched. He picked [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE A Tampa man will get a new trial because he didn't get to confront the crime lab technician who conducted tests for his case. By [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Connie and Bill Blaney look at their Liberty Manor for Veterans and see an humanitarian home, a sanctuary for war veterans. Fire officials look at [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The teen accused in two rapes grew up with a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer as a father figure, but court records indicate it was not [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The teen accused in two rapes grew up with a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer as a father figure, but court records indicate it was not [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; REBECCA CATALANELLO TAMPA -- Investigators think the high school freshman accused in a rape outside a suburban library Thursday night also raped a woman last summer at [...]

Byline: DAVID DECAMP; ABBIE VANSICKLE TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's free program that helps highway motorists faces shutdown unless it can flag down more money. Financially, the Road Rangers are riding on [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Lex Salisbury figured the island, surrounded by a wide moat, would be a safe, comfortable home for the 15 monkeys rescued from Puerto Rico. It looks like [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The scenario sounded too bizarre to be true: jail inmates earning pension funds from Hillsborough County. The issue made headlines last week after county officials [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Brian Sterner, the quadriplegic man who made national news after a detention deputy dumped him from his wheelchair at the Orient Road Jail, is under [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Brian Sterner, the quadriplegic man who made national news after a detention deputy dumped him from his wheelchair at the Orient Road Jail, is under investigation again, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE WAUCHULA -- His fiancee packed him a suit jacket and a tie and bought dressy shoes. Her sister tucked banana bread and fresh mangos into a picnic [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LIBERTO; ABBIE VANSICKLE; BILL VARIAN Go to jail, get a pension? Hillsborough appears to be the only county in the state where tax dollars provide retirement benefits for [...]

Byline: CASEY CORA; ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Willie Cherry III intervened early Tuesday as his younger brother, Adrian, was being robbed at gunpoint outside a sandwich shop. The move cost [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- It took nearly five years, hundreds of pro bono legal hours and one new witness, but Jean Claude Meus will get a new trial. Meus [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Prosecutor Jay Pruner didn't make fast friends with a certain defense witness during a trial this week in a case of attempted murder on a [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The quadriplegic man dumped from his wheelchair at the Hillsborough County jail is mentally competent to face charges in a criminal case, a judge ruled [...]

Byline: COLLEENS JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Six finalists have been nominated to fill the Circuit Court vacancy left by Monica Sierra's resignation. The group, chosen from 41 applicants, includes all four [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE WAUCHULA -- Volunteer firefighter Juan Otero and a friend, coming home from a day of fishing in 2001, saw the wrecked semitrailer truck, its load of tomatoes [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE WAUCHULA -- Volunteer firefighter Juan Otero and a friend, returning from a day of fishing in 2001, saw the wrecked semitrailer truck, its load of tomatoes turning [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- He told his parents that people were out to get him. When his mom gave him soup, he banged on the bowl with a spoon [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The parents of Brian Sterner, a quadriplegic dumped from a wheelchair at the Orient Road Jail in January, say their son changed last fall from [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The hearing was supposed to be a routine matter in a criminal traffic case. But not much has been routine about Brian Sterner's case, and [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The hearing was supposed to be a routine matter in a criminal traffic case. But not much has been routine about Brian Sterner's case, and [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Police arrested a 25-year-old Tampa man Monday after he barricaded himself inside a home in Sulphur Springs for nearly two hours. Police say officers saw [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Police arrested a 25-year-old Tampa man Monday after he barricaded himself inside a home in Sulphur Springs for nearly two hours. Police say the situation [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- One after another, the job candidates come into his office. Psychologist Vincent Skotko sifts through their life stories, looking for signs of their empathy. He [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- One after another, the job candidates come into his office. Psychologist Vincent Skotko sifts through their life stories, looking for signs of their empathy. He [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; AMBER MOBLEY TAMPA -- The teacher omitted her arrest record on her job application. When the school district staff found the truth, they hired her anyway. Her [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; AMBER MOBLEY TAMPA -- The teacher omitted her arrest record on her job application. When the school district staff found the truth, they hired her anyway. During [...]

TAMPA -- In 2007, crime decreased by 10 percent in Tampa, the fifth consecutive year the crime rate has dropped, the Tampa Police Department announced Thursday morning. Murders increased slightly, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- An outside panel investigating the Hillsborough County jail agreed Monday to begin by looking at staff screening, staff training and rules governing the use of [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- - An outside panel investigating the Hillsborough County jail agreed Monday to begin by looking at staff screening, staff training and rules governing the use [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; MIKE BRASSFIELD TAMPA -- Detention Deputy Constance Boyd wriggles her fingers inside the inmate's mouth. 'I glued it,' says Traci Thompson, explaining her stubborn chin piercing. Boyd, [...]

Byline: COLLEENS JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE James Russell Godwin, 41, went to jail Tuesday, accused by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office of aggravated battery on a pregnant female. He wore a [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- A second inmate who uses a wheelchair has complained of abuse by Hillsborough County jail detention deputies. Benjamin Rayburn, 32, a paraplegic now serving 10 [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Behind the yellow police tape and in front of dozens of onlookers, two mothers fell to the ground in grief. Dale T. Matthews, 19, lay [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Behind the yellow police tape and in front of dozens of onlookers, two mothers fell to the ground in grief. Dale T. Matthews, 19, lay [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CHRIS TISCH Susan Chiccino - 46, Clearwater On an April night in 2005, Susan Chiccino painted her face with black paint, donned a black T-shirt and pulled [...]

Byline: CHRIS TISCH; ABBIE VANSICKLE Dr. David VanDercar was retired four years ago when his daughter, Ashley, felt pain in her neck. An equestrian, she had taken several falls that [...]