Police say they arrested a Sebring man for felony battery Friday after a 7-year-old girl alerted a librarian at the Sebring City Library that her mother and boyfriend were fighting. ...more

October 21, 2009

Harold Scism was convicted in August of 12 sex charges ...more

October 13, 2009

Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States. ...more

September 30, 2009

The 5-year-old girl was wearing a nightgown and sneakers; the 2-year-old boy was clad only in a "very soiled diaper" and pajama shirt. ...more

September 17, 2009

ORLANDO (AP) — An investigation by Florida authorities unsealed Monday found there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she said she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam. ...more

September 14, 2009

A 3-year-old girl has been flown by medical helicopter to a St. Petersburg hospital after being found unconscious at a day care, according to Pasco County Fire Rescue dispatchers. ...more

August 20, 2009

A Lake Placid man was arrested Tuesday on warrants accusing him of showing an 11-year-old girl sexually explicit Web sites. ...more

August 20, 2009

A teenager was arrested Monday and charged with sexual battery of a young child, the Tampa Police Department said. ...more

August 18, 2009

A shootout at a mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah between Hamas security men and a more extreme Islamist group called the Warriors of God ended early Saturday with 22 dead, including the group's leader and a senior Hamas security officer. ...more

August 16, 2009

A 12-year-old girl died this morning after she was thrown from a vehicle on an Interstate 75 overpass and plummeted to the busy U.S. 301 beneath, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

August 13, 2009