Prosecutors have dropped a case against a woman accused of stealing three large drawings from Mark Lunsford, the father of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford who was kidnapped and killed in 200 ...more

June 7, 2009

The father of Jessica Lunsford, a Florida girl whose abduction and murder prompted better tracking of sex offenders and harsher punishment for repeat offenders, says he has a new child. ...more

April 11, 2009

Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down. ...more

February 16, 2009

Investigators were interviewing 44 registered sex offenders in the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl that they are treating as an abduction. ...more

February 13, 2009

The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...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

TAMPA - Since returning to the airwaves in January, "The Bubba the Love Sponge Show" is the most listened-to radio show in the Tampa-St. Pete-Clearwater market, according to the most recent Arbitron radio survey released Tuesday. ...more

July 30, 2008

Mark Lunsford and his father, Archie, planned to be in Gainesville on Friday night to watch "Jessie's Dad," a new documentary about the family's ordeal. ...more

May 3, 2008

Mark Lunsford and his father, Archie, will be in Gainesville tonight to watch "Jessie's Dad," a new documentary about the family's ordeal. ...more

May 2, 2008

Before his lawyers made an appearance on Fox News Network's "The O'Reilly Factor," this evening Mark Lunsford and one of his attorney's spoke for the first time about their intent-to-sue notice to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 25, 2008