Carrie Nation Redux Regarding "A Reasonable Solution" (Letters, Feb. 19): In a letter to Mother Trib, one of the advocates of sin taxes suggested another tax be placed on cigarettes of $1 per pack. Regardless of those advocates against tobacco, people in our country are still free to make choices in their lives and live with the consequences of those decisions. ...more

February 25, 2008

Lionel Tate, whose killing of a 6-year-old girl once made him the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life in prison, accepted a plea deal Tuesday in a pizza deliveryman robbery that occurred while he was on probation. ...more

February 20, 2008

LAUDERHILL - A 12-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with fatally beating a toddler he was babysitting, police said. ...more

January 7, 2008

An appeals court has upheld the 30-year probation violation sentence for convicted child killer Lionel Tate, setting the stage for a trial on robbery charges that could add life in prison. ...more

October 26, 2007