Authorities were searching for the gunman who killed a woman at her home and then abandoned her 4-year-old son at a highway rest stop. ...more

January 4, 2009

Fort Myers mental health counselor Thomas Jackson Friedlander was described today as being either a sadistic pedophile or a lonely 78-year-old homosexual who was arrested for describing his corporal punishment fantasies. ...more

December 8, 2008

BRADENTON – A Navy sailor from Bradenton was booked into the Manatee County Jail on child pornography charges Tuesday. ...more

August 20, 2008

PENSACOLA - A Girl Scout troop leader accused of stealing her young Scouts' Social Security numbers and netting $87,000 in a tax scheme pleaded not guilty Tuesday. Federal prosecutors say Holly M. Barnes, 33, asked parents of the 18 girls in her troop to give the children's numbers on a fake medical release. ...more

September 5, 2007

A Girl Scout leader accused of stealing her scouts' Social Security numbers and netting $87,000 in a tax scheme pleaded not guilty to the charges Tuesday. ...more

September 5, 2007