A former Tampa Tribune credit manager accused of conspiring with his wife to steal more than $1 million from the newspaper and its parent company plans to plead guilty and expects to go to prison. ...more

November 5, 2009

Studies show that laws prohibiting sexual predators from living near schools and other places where children congregate do not prevent offenders from committing new crimes and may be counterproductive, a legislative policy analyst told a House panel Tuesday. ...more

November 3, 2009

A New York judge has set bail at $5 million for a Florida hedge fund manager accused of ripping off as much as $350 million from investors. ...more

February 25, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to better observe patients after a state agency investigated a December rape reported there, documents state. ...more

February 14, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to observe patients better after a state agency investigated a rape reported there in December, documents say. ...more

February 13, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Sarasota hedge fund manager who went missing for 13 days after being accused of misleading investors will be held without bail pending trial, a federal magistrate ruled Friday. ...more

January 31, 2009

A Sarasota hedge fund manager who went missing for 13 days after being accused of misleading investors will be held without bail pending trial, a federal magistrate ruled today. ...more

January 30, 2009

By the tens of thousands, victims of stalking lose their jobs, flee their homes and fear for their safety, according to a new federal survey providing the most comprehensive data ever on a crime affecting an estimated 3.4 million Americans a year. ...more

January 13, 2009

A former Chicago police commander was arrested at his Apollo Beach home Tuesday on federal charges relating to a torture case. ...more

October 22, 2008