A state appeals panel ruled today that a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge was wrong in dismissing 19 felony charges against former Tampa Preparatory School swim coach Kimberly Brabson III and that the case can be tried. ...more

December 24, 2008

Middleton High School special education teacher Christina Lin Butler pleaded guilty Thursday to felony lewdness charges related to a three-week affair with a 16-year-old ninth-grader. ...more

October 24, 2008

Middleton High School special education teacher Christina Lin Butler pleaded guilty today to felony lewdness charges related to a three-week affair with a 16-year-old ninth-grader. ...more

October 23, 2008

BARTOW - A Polk County detention deputy was arrested today, accused of making unwanted advances toward a female inmate, the Polk sheriff's office reported. ...more

December 5, 2007

An optician and a doctor were arrested and charged with exposing themselves to an undercover detective at Saddle Creek Park today, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

October 2, 2007

A man accused of holding and showing off a tape depicting the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl was taken into custody Sunday, authorities said. ...more

October 1, 2007

The search for the suspect in the videotaped sexual assault of a little girl was shifted Saturday from a rural county to Las Vegas, where the man was last known to live and where it is thought the chilling tape was made. ...more

September 30, 2007

Investigators could add more charges this week against a man they think is a serial rapist responsible for six sexual attacks since 2003. ...more

September 25, 2007