CAIRO (AP) — A daughter of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for eight years, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported Wednesday. ...more

December 23, 2009

In a case that has polarized public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom today for a 32-year-old sex offense, but an appeals court said in a strongly worded opinion there was probable judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his case. ...more

December 21, 2009

LARGO (AP) — A high school senior won't go to jail for borrowing his mother's car when he was 15 and causing a fatal accident. ...more

November 9, 2009

Former middle school teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can again have unsupervised contact with children, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

October 30, 2009

Former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can again have unsupervised contact with children, a judge ruled this morning. ...more

October 29, 2009

A judge is expected to decide today whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children. The former English teacher at Greco Middle School teacher is asking to be allowed around a limited number of children of her family and friends as long as she is supervised and the parents of each child agree. ...more

October 29, 2009

A judge is set to decide Thursday whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children of her family and friends. ...more

October 27, 2009

A South Florida minister who pleaded no contest for impregnating his 15-year-old goddaughter has an unusual request. Thirty-five-year-old Cory Cortezis Lewis on Thursday asked a judge to serve 1 1/2 years in prison instead of the 2-year house arrest sentence he got last week. ...more

October 23, 2009

More than five years after a hit-and-run that killed two children, the woman who was behind the wheel is asking a court for protection from her creditors. ...more

October 22, 2009

Offenders sentenced to wear ankle bracelets would have to pay for their own monitoring, up to about $3,300 a year, under a bill Florida lawmakers advanced Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009