MIAMI (AP) -- The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday. ...more

July 24, 2008

Hope remains that a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl is still alive, although prosecutors say the case is beginning to look like a homicide. The girls mother, Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with child neglect and lying to investigators. Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set her bond at $500,000 Tuesday, saying the law did not allow him to hold her without bail. ...more

July 24, 2008

Thinking out loud until it started to hurt... Johnny Miller issued an apology for comments made during Tiger Woods' U.S. Open victory that including a suggestion that Rocco Mediate "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool.'' Reached for comment at his neighborhood Pinch A Penny, Mediate said no offense was taken. ...more

June 28, 2008

ILLINOIS - A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust." ...more

June 15, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. ...more

June 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Stanley R. Mills wrote that Deerwood Academy was overpaid when the district gave the school its per-student funding. The school received $292,863, but didn't enroll enough students to earn that amount and should have been given $199,364, Mills wrote. ...more

June 12, 2008

TAMPA - Judge Nelly N. Khouzam was appointed today by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve on the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. ...more

June 3, 2008

Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA – Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled today. While investigating the slayings, crime-scene technicians found a bloody footprint near Freiberg's body on the floor in the master bedroom of her trailer. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA - In a brief hearing today, a juvenile court judge told a 16-year-old rape suspect that he will have to come back to court Friday because prosecutors have not yet filed adult charges against him. Friday marks the deadline when the State Attorney's Office must officially charge Kendrick Morris with the April 24 rape of an 18-year-old at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. ...more

May 12, 2008