A judge on Wednesday sentenced Richard Heene to 90 days in jail, including 60 days of work release that will let him pursue work as a construction contractor while doing his time. Mayumi Heene was sentenced to 20 days behind bars after her husband's release. ...more

December 23, 2009

A former Odessa physician was placed on probation Wednesday for three years for illegally prescribing oxycodone. ...more

December 17, 2009

A former Odessa physician was placed on probation today for three years for illegally prescribing Oxycodone. U.S. District Judge James S. Moody imposed the sentence on John Rew, 84, who pleaded guilty to a single felony count Sept. 17. ...more

December 16, 2009

A Sebring man was arrested Sunday on a warrant accusing him of stealing a generator from a woman who was trying to lease him property. ...more

December 16, 2009

A former Hillsborough County deputy accused of forcing a hit-and-run suspect to perform a sex act on him was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison and 10 years of sex offender probation. ...more

December 11, 2009

A former Hillsborough County deputy accused of forcing a hit-and-run suspect to perform a sex act on him was sentenced today to five years in prison and 10 years of sex offender probation. ...more

December 10, 2009

It has been said that recognition of a problem is half of the solution. Forty percent of the tax in our country is paid by 1 percent of the people. Likely about 49 percent of the population pay more than their pro-rata share, 35 percent pay their pro-rata share and 15 percent are strictly parasites (not temporarily recession caused unemployed). ...more

December 5, 2009

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — A California rancher who houses homeless people on his property chose to serve 90 days in jail rather than accept probation after being convicted of misdemeanor safety violations. ...more

November 23, 2009

"Suffer little children to come to me ..." So begins one of the most cited passages in the Bible. Yet, in cases involving the deaths of children in faith-healing families, the second half of Jesus's admonition from Luke 18:16 is at the heart of legal controversy: "... and forbid them not." ...more

November 22, 2009

A man on Pasco County's most-wanted list has been captured in Las Vegas and brought to Tampa to face federal charges that he tried to hire a hit man to kill a witness against him, a federal official said. ...more

November 19, 2009