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

Deputies said they are having a difficult time getting information from the mother of a missing 2-year-old in a case prosecutors said is beginning to look like a homicide. Orange County sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive. ...more

July 24, 2008

Deputies said they are having a difficult time getting information from the mother of a missing 2-year-old in a case prosecutors said is beginning to look like a homicide. ...more

July 22, 2008

Former Port Richey lawyer Jessica Miller was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail Tuesday for failing to appear at a court hearing in December. ...more

July 9, 2008

Former lawyer Jessica Miller was sent to jail Monday after a judge found her in contempt of court for failing to appear at a hearing last year. ...more

June 24, 2008

SEBRING — A fire in an empty home at 6925 Acorn Terrace late Friday, in the Spring Lake subdivision, was deliberately set, said State Fire Marshal Lt. Brandon Ball on Monday. State arson investigator Michael Douglas was called by firefighters to the scene off of Oak Knoll early Saturday. It was Douglas who determined the fire was arson. "It is an arson fire and we are working it with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office," Ball said. "An accelerant K-9 responded and it was deemed to be intentional." However, Ball would not say if the dog alerted to the presence of an accelerant or if the determination was made by a observations of the fire marshal investigator himself. The fire was actually lit in a playhouse in the back yard. But fortunately, firefighters also discovered a fire in a planter. ...more

June 16, 2008

SEBRING — Nearly every week, the board of directors at the Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce finds a new problem. ...more

June 6, 2008

The Manhattan district attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into a fatal crane accident, focusing on whether a part of the crane had been seriously damaged last year and then inappropriately put back into service, an official involved in the investigation said Saturday. ...more

June 1, 2008

An undercover detective accused of forging a judge's initials on a search warrant was cleared Tuesday of any wrongdoing after investigators concluded the judge had initialed the document. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA - A criminal investigation by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has cleared one of its detectives of wrongdoing after he was accused of falsifying records. ...more

May 27, 2008