A 32-year-old lunchroom aide at Spoto High School has been suspended without pay after acknowledging, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, that she had an inappropriate relationship with a student. ...more

October 24, 2009

WASHINGTON - A telecommunications lobbyist who became part of an explosive story early this year about John McCain has broken months of silence to deny the main subtext of the account - that she was suspected of being romantically involved with the Republican presidential candidate. "I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain," Vicky Iseman told the National Journal magazine. ...more

October 16, 2008

Just months before he had a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female athlete, then-cross country coach Lee Fictum was investigated by campus police for having an inappropriate relationship with the same girl, according to authorities. ...more

October 8, 2008

A former track coach at St. Petersburg High School was arrested Monday, accused of having a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student, St. Petersburg police said. Lee Edward Fictum, 32, of Pinellas Park, was charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, jail records say. He was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $250,000 bail. Fictum developed a personal relationship with the girl that turned sexual in the summer of 2007, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said. The girl's father became aware of the relationship and then made a report to St. Petersburg police, Proffitt said. ...more

October 7, 2008

Hernando County has fired its emergency management director for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with his secretary. ...more

May 11, 2008

A Lake Wales police detective was arrested late Thursday and accused of exchanging sexually charged text messages with a 16-year-old Lake Wales High School student working in the police cadet program, which he coordinated, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report. ...more

May 9, 2008

A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday that he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the regulatory delay of a Pittsburgh TV station sale. ...more

February 24, 2008

When deputies arrived at the home of Ronnie Lewis a few weeks ago, they did so looking to confirm a description a teenage girl gave of the Newsome High School boys soccer coach's unclothed body and descriptions of the interior of his home. ...more

February 11, 2008

TAMPA - When deputies searched a Newsome High School boys soccer coach's home a few weeks ago, they did so looking to confirm a description a teenage girl gave of the man's unclothed body and descriptions of the interior of his home. ...more

February 11, 2008

Two male teachers were removed from Hillsborough County classrooms this week amid unrelated allegations of inappropriate conduct with female students. ...more

February 1, 2008