A Missouri teenager who was kidnapped and held for four years said he figured his days were numbered when his abductor decided to take another boy, according to transcripts from a television interview released Wednesday to The Associated Press. ...more

September 25, 2008

After two of his employees said they were attacked by three men while closing up an Apollo Beach restaurant Saturday, owner Shawn Haverfield is organizing fundraisers to help the women gain "some sense of normalcy." ...more

August 20, 2008

Since two women told authorities they were abducted and sexually assaulted when they were closing an Apollo Beach business Saturday, employees at a nearby hair salon have been taking extra precautions. "Something like this has never happened, so it's very disturbing to know it's hit home," Catrina Langford of Hair Carvers said. "We close at 7 and make sure that door's locked." Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrests of three men detectives say robbed, abducted and sexually assaulted two women early Saturday. ...more

August 20, 2008

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrests of three men detectives say sexually assaulted two women early Saturday. ...more

August 19, 2008

Two women were abducted and robbed in Hillsborough County, authorities said this morning. ...more

August 16, 2008

Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah on Wednesday conducted a prisoner exchange, with two coffins containing the bodies of abducted Israeli soldiers swapped for five Lebanese prisoners, including a convicted murderer. ...more

July 17, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist signed a death warrant this week for a Central Florida man convicted of killing two young girls after raping their mother in 1993. ...more

July 12, 2008

The woman thought to have been abducted at gunpoint by her husband this morning in Brooksville has been found at Flagler Hospital in St. Johns County undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said about 4 p.m. The suspect, her husband Randolph Mark Moats, is in custody after a foot chase, the sheriff's office said. ...more

July 1, 2008

BRADENTON - Four years ago, a 14-year-old girl who was staying at a motel here on a trip to Key West was abducted and driven off in a car, then raped while the attacker's shirt covered her face. ...more

June 20, 2008

A Miami man is being held in a Hillsborough County jail on charges that he kidnapped a businessman for at least $100,000, then fled to Tampa. ...more

June 20, 2008