In a locked classroom at Orient Road Jail, school-age inmates discussed what qualities define a hero. ...more

October 25, 2009

The Hillsborough County School District's Youth Services program is the young offenders' last chance to save themselves from a life of crime, teachers and administrators said. ...more

October 23, 2009

While a rape suspect was plotting his escape from Falkenburg Road Jail, a detention deputy assigned to supervise him was playing card games with other inmates, an Internal Affairs report states. ...more

February 20, 2009

A judge on Thursday decided to allow prosecutors to use a taped conversation between a former teacher and a teenager she is accused of molesting. ...more

January 9, 2009

A judge this afternoon decided to allow prosecutors to use a taped conversation between a former teacher and a teenager she is accused of molesting. ...more

January 8, 2009

TAMPA - She says she doesn't want to end up wearing an orange jumpsuit; she says she knows that the relationship is illegal; she tries to define the legal term "statute of limitations." ...more

May 9, 2008

Stephanie Ragusa knew her relationship with a teenage student could come back to haunt her. No one, she told the boy, would understand. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA - Before being charged with having sex with two underage students, teacher Stephanie Ragusa told one of the boys during a 17-minute phone conversation that she knew what they had done was illegal. ...more

May 8, 2008

TAMPA - Robert Sinclaire Lee is noticeably absent from the attempted murder trial against him today. He didn't want to be in court and was excused this morning after he refused to change out of his orange jumpsuit, repeatedly kicked a door in his holding cell and began to disrobe, Assistant State Attorney Dereck Capaz said. ...more

February 13, 2008

It was Nov. 3, 2007, the day of the Pet Adoption Expo at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Pet rescue and adoption groups from throughout the Bay area come together at such expos in the hopes of finding responsible owners for animals that need good homes. ...more

January 30, 2008