FPL has paid a federal fine for security guards caught sleeping on duty at a nuclear power plant. ...more

April 8, 2009

A Spring Hill man who bragged he "threw down two old people" during a burglary last year received a nine-year prison sentence on Friday. ...more

October 4, 2008

Two Dixie Hollins High School football players pleaded guilty Tuesday to being lookouts while a third player sexually assaulted a teenager on a school bus in May. ...more

August 13, 2008

TAMPA Two Dixie High School football players pleaded guilty today to being lookouts while a third player sexually assaulted a teenager on a school bus in May. ...more

August 12, 2008

Charges have been dropped against three of the eight teenagers accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl in Lakeland in March and recording the incident. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA -- Charges have been dropped against three of the eight teenagers accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl in Polk County and recording the incident. Charges were dropped against both boys accused in the incident, Stephen Thomas Schumaker and Zachary Ashley, as well as Cara Murphy, Polk County State Attorney's Office spokesman Chip Thullbery said ...more

June 13, 2008

SEBRING — A Pompano Beach man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond on a charge of grand theft in connection with the theft of iPods from the Sebring Wal-Mart store on April 6. Arthur Davis, 40, also known as James Johnson, John Davis, Richard Rod, Richard Macon, Richard Davis, Arthur Davis Jr., James Davis, Davis Arthur and June Davis, was booked into jail on a single count of grand theft $5,000 or more but less than $10,000. According to the arrest report, Davis and three unnamed female suspects entered the store just after midnight on April 6. According to video surveillance, they four went to the electronics department. The male suspect, later identified as Davis, fiddled with the iPod display case, and then opened it. The suspect then took some iPods and put them in a bag in a shopping cart, the report stated. The females reportedly acted as lookouts. ...more

June 5, 2008

Mercades Nichols, one of six teens accused of beating Victoria Lindsay and recording the attack so it could be posted online, is seeking permission from a judge to have house arrest and other restrictions lifted. ...more

June 3, 2008

Mercades Nichols, one of six teens accused of beating Victoria Lindsay and taping the attack, is seeking permission to have house arrest and other restrictions lifted. ...more

June 2, 2008

BARTOW - Only one of six teens accused of beating one of their peers showed up today for a status hearing at the Polk County Courthouse. The other five defendants waived their right to appear. ...more

May 30, 2008