A Fort Lauderdale man met a 14-year-old Polk County girl on MySpace.com and had sex with her several times, stretching back to last summer, Polk County deputies say. ...more

December 3, 2007

POLK COUNTY - A Fort Lauderdale man met a 14-year-old Polk County girl on MySpace.com and sexually battered her several times since last summer, Polk County deputies say. ...more

December 2, 2007

AVON PARK — Social-networking Web sites are one of the most popular ways for college students to keep in touch with one another, but it can't be done on South Florida Community College campus. The college has blocked sites like MySpace and Facebook from being accessed on the campus. Even YouTube, a popular Web site for watching and sharing video, is not accessible. "It's really frustrating when we are here waiting for class and we can't get on those sites," said SFCC freshman Justin Platt. "We use them for communicating with our friends, and I don't understand what's wrong with that." ...more

November 20, 2007

Half a lifetime ago, when party lines allowed neighbors to know your business, people had no expectation of privacy when making a telephone call. ...more

November 19, 2007

Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her. ...more

November 17, 2007

State Attorney General Bill McCollum came to Northeast High School on Tuesday, regaling students with Internet horror stories, playing a game with them called 'Pick the Perp' and showing video dramatizations, including one titled 'Sara's Underwear.' ...more

October 31, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Attorney General Bill McCollum came to Northeast High School today, regaling students with Internet horror stories, playing a game with them called "Pick the Perp" and showing video dramatizations, including one titled "Sara's Underwear." ...more

October 30, 2007

Polaroid is not sponsoring Nick Bollea for the 2008 racing season, according to the company's vice president of marketing, Cheryl Mau. ...more

October 25, 2007

Three Manatee High School students could be facing charges after they bragged on the Internet about attacking a girl and giving her a concussion and broken blood vessels, police said. ...more

October 23, 2007

Three Manatee High School students who attacked a girl are facing charges after they bragged about giving her a concussion and broken blood vessels on the Internet, police said. ...more

October 22, 2007