Hillsborough County killer Samuel Smithers is about to face the final punishment. The so-called "Deacon of Death" is slated ...

Police also found two people who had been killed, a man and woman, in separate bedrooms on the home's second floor. Both were ...

In what could be Florida’s 14th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted ...

Hillsborough County detention deputy Daniel Hernandez is standing trial for the death of 65-year-old Krista Richter and the serious injuries of her husband, Peter, following a traffic crash on Aug. 20 ...

Samuel Lee Smithers was sentenced to death for the 1996 murders of two women at an east Hillsborough County home.

Attorneys for Death Row inmate Samuel Smithers on Friday appealed to the Florida Supreme Court after a circuit judge rejected arguments that the 72-year-old inmate’s scheduled execution should be ...

TALLAHASSEE — In what could be Florida’s 14th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1996 in Hillsborough County and ...

The Tampa Police Department is conducting a death investigation after a body was found in a vacant lot on Friday.