There's a three-month waiting list at the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center, a program that allows drug addicted mothers to get treatment while living with their children instead of putting them in foster care and going to prison. ...more

January 2, 2010

Oscar Richardson, convicted of robbing a Tampa convenience store at gunpoint, escaped from a work release center 30 years ago. Investigators finally captured him Saturday in Missouri, where he has lived under an assumed name for most of the past three decades, according to the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo. ...more

December 21, 2009

A probation officer was arrested on a domestic battery charge Sunday night after repeatedly kicking her estranged husband in the testicles, a sheriff's report states. ...more

December 21, 2009

If a judge sets him free today after 35 years in prison, the first thing Jamie Bernard Bain plans to do is pay his respects at his stepfather's grave. ...more

December 17, 2009

Roy Brown has received two letters recently from the man convicted of murdering his 7-year-old daughter more than a decade ago. ...more

December 10, 2009

Convicted killer Glen Chambers has been on the loose since escaping from a Polk County prison in 1990 on a truck filled with inmate-made furniture. ...more

December 7, 2009

Name of business: lil-bit of Florida Location: 1023 W. Palmetto St., Avon Park ...more

November 15, 2009

The story of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad nearing execution on Tuesday in Virginia for crimes he committed in October 2002 piqued my interest ("Beltway Sniper's execution looms," Nation and World, Nov. 10). The interest is in the vast and stark differences between Florida's and Virginia's death-row process. ...more

November 11, 2009

A videotaped sex act and intimidation tactics were behind the ouster of a part-time Pasco-Hernando Community College law enforcement instructor in June. ...more

October 29, 2009

Edward Morales moved on with his life after getting out of prison 21 years ago. ...more

October 29, 2009