Florida Issues

April 1, 2005: A brawl breaks out at a Department of Corrections softball banquet in Tallahassee. Three employees, including Regional Direct...

BY RON WORD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE - A former regional director of Florida's prison system was sentenced Wednesday to two yea...

But the boot-camp settlement could be cut in half when the full chambers vote. Bill Kaczor the Associated Press April 25, 2007 TALLAHASSEE -...

He 'needs to pay' for stabbing, victim's mother says Kelvin De La Cruz is convicted of 2nd-degree murder in the fatal fight at U...

By SABIN RUSSELL Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Inmates executed by lethal injection may in some cases die by "chemical asphyxiation" whi...

By RON WORD Asociated Press April 24, 2007, 4:05 PM EDT JACKSONVILLE -- James Crosby, the former head of Florida's prison system, apolog...

The drugs used to execute prisoners in the United States sometimes fail to work as planned, causing slow and painful deaths that probably vi...

POSTED: 4:35 pm EDT April 23, 2007 UPDATED: 6:22 pm EDT April 23, 2007 SANFORD, Fla. -- Michael Morin faces the possibility of the death pen...

By RON WORD Associated Press Writer JACKSONVILLE, FL (AP) -- As head of the Florida Department of Corrections, Secretary James Crosby seemed...

By JOSH POLTILOVE The Tampa Tribune Published: Apr 23, 2007 TAMPA - Seventh-grader A.J. Williams sat in Franklin Middle School's lunchro...

By Bob Lamendola Sun-Sentinel.com April 24, 2007 The three-drug combination used for lethal injections in Florida and 36 other states does n...

April 23, 2007 Twenty years after rampage, Cruse sits on death row BY JOHN A. TORRES, Florida Today Two decades ago today, William Byran Cru...

Science News Online Week of April 21, 2007; Vol. 171, No. 16 Bruce Bower State laws that send some individuals under age 18 to trial and pri...

By Allyson Bird Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Friday, April 20, 2007 With two men indicted as the alleged gunmen in the October murder of a f...

A judge clears the way for the suspect in the attack on a Daytona man to live with family out of state. Tanya Caldwell Sentinel Staff Writer...

The Associated Press April 20, 2007, 7:56 AM EDT OCALA -- An Ocala Police Department veteran was charged with trying to solicit a 14-year-ol...

By: Carson Walker SIOUX FALLS -- Jurors could start deliberating as early as late Tuesday whether Daphne Wright of Sioux Falls becomes the f...

Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse Vancouver, WA (April 19, 2007) Florida’s children continue to be abused in DJJ facilities. C...

By Ken Kaye South Florida Sun-SentinelApril 19, 2007 It's just as easy to purchase guns in Florida as Virginia, as both are among the mo...

Hansen is best known for his confrontational program "To Catch A Predator". He was here last year to bust predators in Fort Myers....

Tanya Caldwell Sentinel Staff Writer April 19, 2007, 10:25 AM EDT One of the two 10-year-olds accused of beating and stoning a Daytona Beach...

19 April 2007 Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Roger Cherry CapDefNet has a strong roundup of some of last week’s federal court...

By DEREK SIMMONSEN AND TYLER TREADWAY staff writers April 19, 2007 Ricardo Sanchez and Daniel Troya were the gunmen who killed a family of f...

Originally published — 7:59 a.m., April 17, 2007 Updated — 11:05 a.m., April 17, 2007 A Lee County judge said this morning that the indictme...