Month: November 2011

Four people were arrested in New Port Richey this week and charged with first-degree murder, two weeks after the November 10th beating death of Samuel Martinez Pratts in a vacant house.Adam Ekdahl, Courtney Ann Keeven, Zoraina Castillo and Staci Gurney are charged...

Pasco County Sheriff's deputies arrested 18-year-old William James Osborn of New Port Richey for DUIafter a Thanksgiving morning crash in Gulf Harbors. Officers say Osborn was street racing while intoxicated. They allege he was racing another car on Floramar Terrace...

State Senator Thad Altman has proposed changing Florida's statute requiring that a jury recommendation of execution must be unanimous decision of all 12 jurors. Altman, a Republican, says it is "inconsistent and illogical" that the law requires a unanimous verdict at...

In 2009, Ryan Carll caused a car crash in Hillsborough County that killed Tina Harrison, a Clearwater choir director. Carll was intoxicated at the time of the crash and ultimately charged with DUI manslaughter.Carll allegedly mixed prescription pain killers with...

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term. This makes Oregon the fifth state to halt executions since 2007.Kitzhaber is a former emergency room doctor who still retains an active physician license. He is...

Christian Lee Hancock and Tina Inez Schneider of Riverview were convicted by a Tampa federal jury earlier this month of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering and structuring financial transactions to evade currency transaction reporting...

A seven-woman, five-man jury found former Hillsborough County commissioner Kevin White guilty of seven out of 10 federal charges in his public corruption trial this week. The trial took eight days and the jury deliberated for approximately six hours before returning...