A former Marine lance corporal who pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online has been sentenced to five years probation, with a condition that he stay in a halfway house on house arrest for six months, his lawyer said. Prosecutors say Steven Lee Fickey stole the identities of about 18 people, using them to buy things through a Web site maintained by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. ...more

November 7, 2008

Before Sept. 3, 2004, Mario Ladler II was a happy, thriving preschooler with notable smarts and talents, his attorney, David Kleinberg, says. ...more

November 2, 2007

LAKELAND - A Polk County jury awarded a Lakeland family $50 million Wednesday, three years after a drunken driver hit their car, leaving their son with severe brain damage. ...more

November 1, 2007