PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- Teddy Dupay, who played on Florida's runner-up team in the 2000 NCAA basketball tournament, was charged with beating and raping a woman last month at a Utah ski resort. ...more

July 10, 2008

A man suspected of beating and raping a woman after he invited her into his home Monday was found dead Tuesday morning behind his family's Land O' Lakes business. Authorities are calling it a suicide. ...more

June 4, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - A man suspected of beating and raping a woman after he invited her into his home on Monday has been found dead in Land O' Lakes in what authorities are calling a suicide. ...more

June 3, 2008

Mercades Nichols, one of six teens accused of beating Victoria Lindsay and taping the attack, is seeking permission to have house arrest and other restrictions lifted. ...more

June 2, 2008

It was a half-hour a deaf couple likely won't ever forget. At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, visitors rang a special doorbell that summoned Ralph Prezioso, 86, to his front door in the 5000 block of Ixora Street. ...more

May 31, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - It was a half-hour an elderly couple likely will never forget. At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, visitors summoned an 86-year-old man to his front door at 5351 Ixora St. When he opened the door, two guns were pointed at him, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office spokesman. According to the sheriff's office, the two men behind the guns led the man into his living room, where his 77-year-old wife was sleeping in a recliner. The intruders put masking tape over the mouths of husband and wife, bound their hands and told them to keep quiet. ...more

May 30, 2008

BARTOW - Only one of six teens accused of beating one of their peers showed up today for a status hearing at the Polk County Courthouse. The other five defendants waived their right to appear. ...more

May 30, 2008

Deputies arrested three adults and a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday in a Gibsonton mobile home park after they assaulted a pregnant woman, according to arrest reports. Sharon A. Jackson, 41, Iris N. Williams, 36, and Johnny D. Williams, 33, were charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant female and criminal mischief, records show. The Tribune is not publishing the name of the teenager because he was not charged as an adult. ...more

May 28, 2008

Pasco County sheriff's detectives have arrested a man they believe ran over and dragged a fellow deputy Monday morning, sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said. Brian Patrick Mitchell, 27, was arrested at the same Port Richey apartment complex where Deputy William Orndorff stopped a GMC Envoy for going 65 mph in a 45-mph zone at Embassy Boulevard and Jarman Lane at 4:19 a.m. Monday, Doll said. ...more

May 6, 2008

Authorities have identified a man they say dragged a Pasco County sheriff's deputy about 30 feet before running over him with a GMC Envoy. ...more

May 6, 2008