Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack. ...more

November 8, 2009

It's a practiced art among most middle school boys: The passing of gas and blaming it on someone sitting next to you. ...more

March 19, 2009

The plan all along was to appeal. That was unless Florida State officials found a solution through conversation with the NCAA over sanctions that require the school to vacate victories over its academic-misconduct case. ...more

March 17, 2009

Florida State University will appeal the part of an NCAA sanction that would take away wins in 10 sports, including as many as 14 in football. ...more

March 16, 2009

Florida State is gearing up for another fight with the NCAA. The university likely will appeal an NCAA ruling that 10 teams must vacate victories in which ineligible student-athletes involved in an academic-misconduct case had participated in athletic competition before being reinstated. The case involved 61 student-athletes and three former FSU employees, and largely centered on a tutor providing answers to quizzes for an online music course. ...more

March 7, 2009

A supervisor with the Florida Highway Patrol earned a three-day suspension for secretly recording prosecutors as they discussed pending traffic homicide cases. ...more

December 8, 2007

Despite protests from state Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, the full Republican National Committee voted Thursday to cut in half the national convention delegations of those states, including Florida, that hold presidential primaries before Feb. 5. ...more

November 9, 2007

Fifty years ago this fall, in the tiny town of Apalachin, near Binghamton, N.Y., Americans were unexpected guests at the coming-out party for organized crime. American popular culture has never been the same since then. Neither has the psyche of Italian-Americans. ...more

October 12, 2007