A federal grand jury has indicted a former Oklahoma deputy on charges he traveled to Pinellas County to have sex with two children. ...more

March 6, 2009

One of five teenage girls charged in the beating of another teen was sentenced today to three years of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery. Circuit Judge Keith Spoto also sentenced Mercades Nichols to 100 hours of community service and ordered that she pay restitution to victim Victoria Lindsay. ...more

March 6, 2009

A jury has recommend that a southwest Florida man spend the rest of his life in prison for killing a young couple and leaving behind their toddler with the bodies. ...more

March 5, 2009

A Polk County man has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in the death of a 25-year-old gay man. ...more

February 27, 2009

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before finding Linda Callam not guilty of second-degree murder in the March 29, 2007, stabbing death of her longtime boyfriend, Paul Pullins. ...more

February 20, 2009

A local murder suspect who drew national attention in 2005 for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta for 56 hours was found guilty today and sentenced to life in prison. ...more

February 13, 2009

A mentally ill woman who told police she was trying to "kill the demons" when she stabbed her 2-year-old son to death in 2007 may avoid criminal prosecution. ...more

February 13, 2009

A Florida hedge fund manager accused of bilking investors of up to $350 million told family members he expected to be labeled a "mini-Madoff" after disappearing on a two-week jaunt across the country before turning himself in, court documents filed Thursday show. ...more

February 12, 2009

The murder suspect who drew national attention in 2005 for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta for 56 hours was found guilty today and sentenced to life in prison. ...more

February 12, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009