MANATEE COUNTY - Authorities say a marijuana run by William J. White Jr., 19, and Jakob Cunnien, 17, ended with White dead and two 18-year-olds in custody, one of them a rising gridiron star at Lakewood Ranch High School. ...more

July 16, 2008

Attorneys for the five teens accused of beating one of their peers in Lakeland and videotaping with the intent to post online were at a court hearing today in Bartow. ...more

July 8, 2008

Brittni Hardcastle, one of the teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of Mulberry teenager Victoria Lindsay, can now attend church. ...more

June 27, 2008

TAMPA - Brittni Hardcastle, one of the teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of Mulberry teenager Victoria Lindsay, has a hearing today to request changes to the terms of her pretrial release. ...more

June 26, 2008

LAKELAND - One of the girls charged in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay told an assistant state attorney that she did not realize the scope of the incident until she was released from a juvenile detention center and watched the local news at home. ...more

June 25, 2008

Stop Sexual Harassment The emerging statistics are startling: 90 percent of adolescent girls between the ages 12 and 18 report experiencing sexual harassment. This disturbing information comes from a recent study by Campbell Leaper, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that was published in the May/June issue of Child Development Journal. ...more

June 16, 2008

DUNEDIN - Rabbit owners have their own social networking Web site, BunSpace, to tout hare raising experiences and humans have MySpace or Facebook over which to interact. Two local computer savvy women have created a social networking Web site for people who just can't leave their pooch home alone. It is called the Dog Travel Network. ...more

June 14, 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

Most people read their college alumni magazines for the class notes, immediately flipping to the back to see who was married, had a baby or was promoted to an envy-inducing job. The columns tend to be meatiest at this time of year - class reunion season. ...more

June 13, 2008