A California man has pleaded not guilty to aiding statutory rape in an alleged arrangement to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, beer and meat. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Port Charlotte man and a Punta Gorda woman were charged with child endangerment for allegedly bringing two children to a drug buy set up by detectives, Punta Gorda police said. ...more

December 13, 2008

A woman admitted she helped her troubled, bullied 14-year-old son build a weapons cache by buying a rifle and gunpowder, but investigators still don't know whether she was aware her son was planning a deadly school attack. ...more

September 24, 2008

For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room - made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave - the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water. ...more

August 2, 2008

Investigators hoped to confirm today the identity of a woman whose body was found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. ...more

July 20, 2008

TAMPA - A 44-year-old Tampa man took two young children along when he sold nearly $1,000 worth of oxycodone pills to an undercover Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy Thursday night, authorities said. ...more

January 18, 2008

The mother of a teenage girl who committed suicide after being taunted online urged a state task force on Internet harassment Monday to recommend criminalizing such behavior. ...more

December 19, 2007

People who sent cruel Internet messages to a 13-year-old girl before she committed suicide won't face criminal charges, a suburban St. Louis prosecutor announced Monday. ...more

December 4, 2007

An Internet hoax that ended with the suicide of a 13-year-old has led to calls from her family for better protections against online harassment, though any solution may run afoul of the First Amendment. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County elementary schoolteacher is free on $500 bail this morning after being charged Sunday with misdemeanor driving under the influence while driving with her 3-year-old son. ...more

November 19, 2007