HAINES CITY - Thanks in part to some attentive citizens, Haines City police say they've arrested an Orlando man responsible for up to 10 bank robberies across Central Florida. For now, Christopher Eugene Floyd, 29, has been charged in one Haines City robbery and two Lake County robberies. But he's a suspect in 10 robberies, stretching from Melbourne to Lakeland, starting in late March. ...more

May 29, 2008

Lionel Tate, whose killing of a 6-year-old girl once made him the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life in prison, accepted a plea deal Tuesday in a pizza deliveryman robbery that occurred while he was on probation. ...more

February 20, 2008

Olympic champion sprinter Justin Gatlin will challenge his four-year doping suspension and may take the case to federal court. ...more

January 3, 2008

A man who spent more than a decade in a Florida prison for a fatal stabbing with a 6-inch filet knife is now accused of kidnapping and trying to strangle his former girlfriend. ...more

December 14, 2007

Sixty-one percent of defendants sentenced in the Bush administration's crackdown on corporate fraud spent no more than two years in prison, escaping the stiff penalties given WorldCom Inc. and Enron Corp. executives. ...more

December 13, 2007

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow about 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. ...more

December 12, 2007

After a three-hour, emotional hearing filled with apologies, tears and requests for mercy, a former Wharton High School teacher and basketball coach was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to a sexual relationship with one of her students. ...more

December 6, 2007

So, a grand jury in California has added its voice to the chorus. Let us now all sing together: Barry Bonds, you're a liar. ...more

November 16, 2007

A former county employee filed a plea agreement Tuesday admitting her role in a fraud scheme that authorities say helped scores of illegal immigrants secure false driver's licenses. ...more

November 7, 2007

TAMPA - A former county employee filed a plea agreement today admitting her role in a fraud scheme that authorities say helped scores of illegal immigrants secure false driver's licenses. ...more

November 6, 2007