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A Pasco County judge ordered a new penalty phase for a man on Florida's Death Row last week based upon a motion for relief filed by Bjorn Brunvand. Senior Judge William Webb granted the order for resentencing in favor of Phillup Alan Partin, who was sentenced to death...
A Pasco County judge ordered a new penalty phase for a man on Florida's Death Row last week based upon a motion for relief filed by Bjorn Brunvand. Senior Judge William Webb granted the order for resentencing in favor of Phillup Alan Partin, who was sentenced to death...
A Wesley Chapel woman was apprehended last week after police say she left the scene of an accident she caused while driving drunk. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say Wendy Ann Rogers was driving east on State Road 56 at Maple Parkway when her 2013 Ford Edge...
A Florida Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for a retrial of a former executive at Jabil Circuit, Inc. who is accused of murdering his wife and her friend. Patrick Albert Evans of Saint Petersburg Beach was a vice president at Jabil in 2008, and married to...
Eight people were injured and a ninth was killed in a fiery car crash that officers of the Florida Highway Patrol say was the result of a Pinellas Park man drunkenly driving the vehicle several of them occupied. Eighteen-year-old Donavan Leigh Patterson is accused by...
A Lakeland dance instructor was sentenced to a dozen years in Florida prison last Monday after being found guilty of DUI manslaughter. Deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office say Brian A. DeFreitas was driving home in early October 2015 when he collided...
A St. Petersburg man is dead and a Tampa man is facing a charge of DUI manslaughter after a collision last Sunday afternoon in Pinellas Park. According to police, Anthony Robert Davis was driving a blue Ford Mustang on Gandy Boulevard at Grand Avenue at around 4:40...
After being sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder almost three decades ago, a man convicted of a Polk county murder has been given the chance to put new evidence before a court that he and his attorneys believe may prove to exonerate him. Leo Robert...
An argument last week landed one St. Petersburg man in jail facing charges of first-degree murder and another in the morgue. According to authorities, Thomas Peruchi drove to the St. Petersburg home of Trevor Scott last Monday, initially intending only to pick him up....
Deputies of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office made an arrest last Thursday in the 2015 slaying that ended an alleged love triangle. Priscilla "Dawn" Houck of St. Petersburg is alleged by authorities to have shot to death the long-time boyfriend of a woman with whom...
