Before Jessie Lunsford, there was Jimmy Ryce. Like the Jessica Lunsford Act of 2005, which toughened sentencing for child sex offenders, the Jimmy Ryce Act bears the name of a young victim of a brutal rape and murder. That law, which state lawmakers passed in 1998, keeps Florida's most disturbed, violent sexual predators confined even after their prison sentences end. ...more

December 9, 2008

The 18-year-old victim of a brutal rape and beating at the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library is expected to return to her home in south Hillsborough County at the end of this month. ...more

October 17, 2008

The 18-year-old victim of a brutal rape and beating at the Bloomingdale Regional Library is expected to return to her home in south Hillsborough County at the end of this month. ...more

October 16, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether a convicted child rapist can be put to death, thereby reconsidering a more than 40-year trend in the United States in which executions have been limited to murderers. ...more

January 5, 2008

Deputies Deserve Raise Regarding 'Sheriff Should Hold Line On Raises' (Our Opinion, Oct. 10): ...more

October 18, 2007