A former Department of Children & Families employee was sentenced today to two years of probation for lying to investigators to help his friend, former DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

June 2, 2009

A former Department of Children & Families employee pleaded guilty today to lying to investigators to help his friend, former DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

March 5, 2009

A former Department of Children & Families employee has agreed to plead guilty to lying to investigators to help his friend, former DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

February 11, 2009

A jury on Wednesday convicted a South Florida teenager of first-degree murder in the 2004 stabbing death of his 14-year-old friend in a middle school bathroom. ...more

September 25, 2008

ORLANDO - A jury on Wednesday convicted a South Florida teenager of first-degree murder in the 2004 stabbing death of his 14-year-old friend in a middle school bathroom. ...more

September 24, 2008

An 80-year-old woman is in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after a three-vehicle wreck at U.S. 301 and Trilby Road, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The wreck happened 7:45 p.m. Sunday. Alice Richardson Neish of Zephyrhills was traveling north on U.S. 301 when, for unknown reasons, she veered into the southbound lanes, the highway patrol said. She was critically injured after her 2008 Chevrolet Cavalier struck a 1997 Buick before getting broadsided by a 2008 Nissan. The driver of the Cavalier, Maricela Benites-Rodriguez, 31, of San Antonio, was taken to St. Joseph's with serious injuries, as were the Nissan's driver, Michael Hernandez, 50, of Wesley Chapel, and his passengers, Darlene Lugo-Hernandez, 44, and Jonathan Hernandez, 11. The highway patrol was investigating. The victims' conditions were unavailable today. ...more

September 22, 2008

A "good child" who played Little League baseball became an emotionless loner and compulsive health fanatic in the six months before he killed a middle school classmate, his parents testified Thursday. ...more

September 19, 2008

A teenager on trial in the slaying of a classmate had said it would be "cool" to be a serial killer years before the slaying in a school bathroom, a former friend testified Tuesday. ...more

September 17, 2008

The trial of a teenager accused of killing his 14-year-old friend in a middle school bathroom will be transferred from Miami to Orlando because of relentless media coverage, a judge decided Tuesday. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - It came down to a matter of trust. A federal magistrate today denied bail for former Department of Children & Families spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

February 13, 2008