Mary Delgado quivered and sobbed when TV's Bachelor went down on his knee and popped the question to her before a national TV audience. ...more

November 25, 2007

SEMINOLE - Almost three years to the day after professional bass fisherman Byron Velvick proposed to her on ABC's "The Bachelor," Mary Delgado was arrested on charges she punched him in mouth Tuesday night, causing his lip to bleed. ...more

November 23, 2007

Prosecutors will look to strengthen their murder case against Lawrence Tener when the 25-year-old goes to trial Wednesday on an unrelated aggravated battery charge. ...more

October 30, 2007

A jury deliberated for more than two hours today before clearing a Port Richey pastor of a misdemeanor battery charge. ...more

October 24, 2007

SEBRING — After two years of eluding a prison sentence that he previously agreed to, sex offender Bruce M. Glaum, formerly of Sebring, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 and a half years in prison. Judge Peter Estrada sentenced Glaum, 33, Tuesday morning at the Highlands County Courthouse to the maximum penalty for a charge of a lewd battery of a minor under the age of 16. ...more

October 3, 2007

SULPHUR SPRINGS - An 8-year-old Sulphur Springs girl said she was walking home from Saturday school, Starburst candy in hand, when a stranger who might have been homeless grabbed her by the ponytail. ...more

September 30, 2007

A Tuesday afternoon melee in a Lakeland neighborhood was not immediately preceded by a fight at Lakeland High School as first thought, school and police officials said Wednesday. ...more

September 5, 2007