Florida State University couldn't convince the NCAA to reverse its decision to strip the school of wins in 10 sports following an academic cheating scandal. ...more

June 18, 2009

A Winter Haven man was spared the death penalty today for his role in the 2006 slaying of a Polk County drug dealer. ...more

March 5, 2009

Nearly seven years ago, then-Circuit Judge Maynard Swanson unloaded on Lawrence Joey Smith in a 32-page sentencing order sending Smith to death row. ...more

February 23, 2008

The lives of Richard and Kathleen Ross were taken in the middle of the night, their heads crushed with a baseball bat gripped in the hands of the son whom they loved. ...more

November 17, 2007

A day after a jury convicted Khalid Ali Pasha of killing his wife and her adult daughter, his attorney described him as likable, hard-working, religious and generous. ...more

November 2, 2007