Crime and Public Safety

Despite efforts by Donald Dillbeck's attorneys and death penalty protesters, Florida will move forward with executing the man who murdered a Tallahassee woman back in 1990. It will be the state's first execution since 2019.

A school bus aide in Polk County is facing child abuse charges after investigators say she grabbed a student on an exceptional student education (ESE) bus and forced him into a seat. 

The last two years have seemed like an eternity for the Lamones' family. They were the target of a shooting back on Christmas Eve in 2020, and it took the life of one family member and injured three others. 

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputy was charged with DUI after crashing into a tanker while riding a motorcycle at more than 100 mph, investigators said. 

A teacher’s assistant at Poinciana Christian Preparatory School was arrested after investigators say he kissed a student against her will, touched her inappropriately and asked her to send him nude photos. 

One woman is dead and another is charged with murder following a fatal argument in St. Petersburg. 

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide after a woman died from severe upper body trauma. 

Later this week, Florida could carry out its first execution in four years, but a human rights organization is trying to stop it from happening. It's launching a statewide speaking tour this week encouraging lawmakers to abolish the death penalty. 

The Hillsborough County school district held a town hall panel discussion Monday focusing on raising awareness about the dangers of online human trafficking.

Billy Adams walked from a Tampa courtroom as a free man on January 27 after a jury acquitted him of killing Trevon Albury and Daniel Thompson in a makeshift recording studio in Lutz. 

The sticker is part of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office’s Respond With Care program that Sheriff Bob Gualtieri just launched. It’s aimed at alerting and preparing first responders that someone with special needs may be in a home or a car that they’re approaching.

It’s been 18 years since Steven Lorenzo and his co-conspirator Scott Schweickert terrorized Tampa’s gay community. Men were drugged, tortured, and used as sex slaves – and two men were murdered, Jason Galehouse and Michael Waccholtz.

A Clearwater Fire Department medic was arrested over the weekend for driving a golf cart while under the influence, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.