ObamaCare Unbelievable. This health care legislation is so bad the administration had to bribe or threaten to get enough votes. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson got Floridians exempted from some of it. Sen. Mary Landrieu got bought off with hundreds of millions of dollars. Sen. Ben Nelson had the threat of closing military bases and putting those communities out of work. ...more

December 27, 2009

University of South Florida running back Mike Ford was arrested this morning on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license. ...more

December 10, 2009

A former Miami teacher was sentenced to 2 years probation and 100 hours of community service for allegedly giving an autistic student soda spiked with hot sauce. ...more

October 8, 2009

Jose Solier has been missing nearly eight months, and his family just wants to know what happened to him. "We're just hoping for closure — that's it," his cousin Maria Rivera said. "Either he's dead or alive, but we just want closure." Hillsborough County deputies say they have no new leads. ...more

February 10, 2009

A former Dowdell Middle School teacher was sentenced Thursday to six months probation for assaulting two students, slamming one of the students' hands in a door. ...more

January 9, 2009

A former Dowdell Middle School teacher was sentenced this morning to six months probation for assaulting two students, slamming one of the students' hands in a door. ...more

January 8, 2009

Christopher Cutugno drew the break of his life Friday, as Circuit Judge Jack Day sentenced him just two years of house arrest followed by four years probation for his role in the March beatings of two fellow teenagers. ...more

December 19, 2008

The judge's indignant remarks came a day after a jury acquitted a man of charges he had struck two Gulfport police officers. ...more

October 11, 2008

Pinellas Judge rejects a prosecutors demands for restituition in a case where Gulfport police beat and tasered a man in what began as a trespassing case. ...more

October 10, 2008

Two Dixie Hollins High School football players pleaded guilty Tuesday to being lookouts while a third player sexually assaulted a teenager on a school bus in May. ...more

August 13, 2008