A Sarasota man has been arrested on federal charges that he sent threatening e-mail to people, including a state representative. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Panama City woman says she was fired from a job booking vacation rentals after she refused to greet callers with "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." ...more

December 23, 2008

A Pinellas County physician has been charged with illegally selling drugs he obtained by writing prescriptions in his patients' names without their knowledge. ...more

November 21, 2008

A federal prosecutor has asked U.S. District Judge James Moody to allow an undercover FBI agent to testify behind a screen and use a pseudonym in a murder-for-hire trial. ...more

November 19, 2008

Federal authorities have charged Kevin Negus Patterson with trying to deliver six kilograms of cocaine from Broward County to Lunch Markinley Philentrope in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 18, 2008

Around the same time a mental health counselor was talking online to an undercover detective in Pinellas County about having sex with the detective's fictional young sons, he was chatting with another undercover detective about having sex with that detective's fictional mentally handicapped daughter, a prosecutor said in court this morning. Charles Jackson Friedlander, 78, is scheduled to go on trial Monday on a charge he used a computer to arrange sex with the first detective's fictional 10- and 11-year old boys. Friedlander, of Fort Myers, could face between 10 years and life behind bars if convicted. ...more

November 14, 2008

A Valrico man, who authorities say took sexually explicit pictures of a teenage girl with plans to sell them on the Internet, is facing federal charges. ...more

November 6, 2008

Recently discovered victims of former Department of Children & Families' spokesman Al Zimmerman were not clients of the state agency, said DCF Secretary George Sheldon. ...more

October 17, 2008

Recently discovered victims of former Department of Children & Families' spokesman Al Zimmerman were not clients of the state agency, said DCF Secretary George Sheldon. ...more

October 16, 2008

Authorities have found more victims of a former state Department of Families & Children spokesman who was jailed on child porn charges, a federal prosecutor said this morning. ...more

October 15, 2008