This is the moment that has consumed two brothers in the months that followed a horrific automobile accident on a rainy May day in Mississippi. ...more

October 25, 2008

Zachary Sharples, the 12-year-old suspended from a Palmetto middle school for his Rayhawk hairdo, may have moved to St. Petersburg, but he can't dodge the spotlight. ...more

October 15, 2008

The call from ESPN came after a wild week that began with the suspension and ended with Zachary meeting Rays players and coaches on Tropicana Field before Saturday's game. ...more

October 14, 2008

The judge's indignant remarks came a day after a jury acquitted a man of charges he had struck two Gulfport police officers. ...more

October 11, 2008

Pinellas Judge rejects a prosecutors demands for restituition in a case where Gulfport police beat and tasered a man in what began as a trespassing case. ...more

October 10, 2008

A Sebring man was free Friday on $3,000 bail, while his step-son remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond, after a verbal argument over the use of a home computer got out of hand and turned violent, according to Sebring police. ...more

October 6, 2008

In 1962, Judy Ortiz, a child of Puerto Rican immigrants, was born into homelessness in lower Manhattan of New York City. Her mother was homeless as a consequence of her father's drug addiction. ...more

October 6, 2008

When she was served with DUI manslaughter charges in a fatal head-on crash on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, Cheryl Riemann told a trooper she didn't even remember being on the highway, the trooper said. ...more

September 26, 2008

A judge today denied bail for Cheryl Riemann, who is facing DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges in the Sept. 10 head-on crash that killed a mother and left the woman's child in serious condition. ...more

September 25, 2008

A Lake Placid woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $40,000 bond Wednesday, after sheriff's investigators say she became angry and threatened her stepdad with a pan of hot grease. ...more

August 29, 2008