Month: May 2013

Jennifer Meier Hunt, a former employee at Tampa-based staffing agency Kforce, pleaded guilty this week to charges related to stealing workers' identity information for use in tax refund fraud. Hunt was charged in federal court in Tampa with theft of government...

Seventy-one year old Ralph Wald, a retired Army colonel, retired lawyer and Vietnam veteran, is on trial this week in Tampa for the March 10 killing of Walter Lee Conley, 32. Wald is charged with second-degree murder for shooting Conley three times in the living room...

Over the weekend, a 40-year-old man was arrested at Tampa International Airport, accused of driving while intoxicated with his 6-year-old son in the car. An airport police officer stopped Bradley Walker Younger about 9 p.m. after receiving reports of an impaired...

In a capital murder trial that has captivated national media for months, an Arizona jury appears to be deadlocked in the determining the recommended penalty against accused murderer Jodi Arias. As of this writing, jurors had deliberated for less than a day but had...

Former Tampa Bay area attorney Lawrence Hartman was deported by Nicaraguan authorities deported last week and sent back to Florida where he faces fraud charges in Tampa's federal court. He is accused of participating in a $137 million fraud and money laundering scheme...

Kenneth Ray Jackson was scheduled to be sentenced this week after having been convicted of raping and killing Cuc Thu Tran, a Seffner mother of three, in 2007. The hearing was rescheduled for June 5. A jury found Jackson guilty of first-degree murder last November and...

John "Andrew" Welden, the son of a Lutz fertility doctor, has been charged with first-degree murder and product tampering in Tampa's federal court. Federal prosecutors alleged Welden killed an ex-girlfriend's unborn child by tricking her into taking an abortion...