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Staff Report A serial killer of gay men will remain on death row after losing another in a long list of appeals. The Florida Supreme Court d...

12-Year-Old Boy Offered Plea Deal POSTED: 8:55 pm EST February 18, 2008 UPDATED: 9:24 pm EST February 18, 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The ...

By: Mike Deeson Tampa, Florida - This is a crime caught on tape that's what this is. That's how Marcella Pourmoghani describes an in...

Mike Ervin MCT Forum Law-enforcement personnel need more training about how to interact with persons with disabilities. The videotape of a q...

BY HANNAH SAMPSON hsampson@MiamiHerald.com Lionel Tate pleaded no contest Tuesday to robbery charges. Tate, who is accused of robbing a pizz...

By Tonya Alanez Sun-Sentinel.com 11:08 AM EST, February 19, 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE - Lionel Tate pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges stemmi...

The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lionel Tate, whose killing of a 6-year-old girl once made him the youngest person in modern U.S...

The four victims were, clockwise from bottom left, Julie Green, 34, Stacey Gage, 30, LaQuetta Gunther, 45, and Iwana Patton, 35. Some wonder...

STAFF REPORT Published Friday, Feb. 15, 2008 at 11:27 a.m. BRADENTON — Thomas L. Fast, accused of stabbing and cutting up his stepmother las...

Andy Meinen Thursday February 14th, 2008 DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — A jury recommended the death penalty Friday for Kirk D. Williams, who was found ...

Voting rights, or lack thereof, in this country By: Galen Kusic Posted: 2/15/08 With an election of great magnitude quickly approaching, it ...

10 hours ago TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man from a wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor h...

By Derek Simmonsen Friday, February 15, 2008 The two men accused of killing a family of four on Florida's Turnpike in Port St. Lucie wer...

Staff Report A serial killer of gay men will remain on death row after losing another in a long list of appeals. The Florida Supreme Court d...

Ludmilla Lelis Sentinel Staff Writer February 15, 2008 The mastermind behind one of Central Florida's most bizarre and sensational murde...

By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer Published February 12, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------...

Suicide Leads to Change At Jail ByShoshana Walter & Jeremy Maready BARTOW Drawstring cords were removed from all inmate laundry bags in...

MIAMI (CBS4) ― A federal lawsuit was filed on Wednesday over the case of a Miami-Dade jail inmate who died after spending more than a week l...

Associated Press - February 14, 2008 4:24 AM ET OCALA, Fla. (AP) - A jury has recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of killing a...

Stephen Hudak Sentinel Staff Writer February 13, 2008 OCALA Diana Miller was an athlete, caregiver, friend and prankster. The 63-year-old wo...

Florida Attorney General's office is looking into whether the civil rights of a paralyzed man dumped onto a jailhouse floor were violate...

Palm Beach County Jail By JANE MUSGRAVE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Nervous about his looming seven-day jail ...

The prosecution and the defense find some common ground on the victim's only daughter. Stephen Hudak Sentinel Staff Writer February 7, 2...

By NATALIE NEYSA ALUND nalund@bradenton.com A grand jury today indicted a man on murder and drug charges in connection with a botched drug d...

Gardens softball field dedicated to slain star By Stacy Hicklin South Florida Sun-Sentinel February 8, 2008 There was something about her sm...

STAFF REPORT SARASOTA COUNTY — The state intends to seek the death penalty for Michael L. King, who is charged in the kidnapping and murder ...

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday will again give the reins of a troubled state agency to a Democrat, naming St. Petersburg Re...

Brenda Sullivan Wislon Sullivan (AP) -- A woman faces up to 20 years in prison for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her Jackso...