A Former Nature Coast Technical High School band director faces the prospect of trial next month. ...more

January 27, 2009

The last time Early Williams saw his 3-year-old neighbor Eddie Gould alive, the boy was hunched over a toy truck pushing it toward the road through their trailer park. ...more

January 22, 2009

A man who figured prominently last year in the investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison on a weapons charge. ...more

January 22, 2009

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An Indiana investment adviser is not mentally competent to be tried on charges he deliberately crashed his plane in the Florida Panhandle in a botched plot to fake his death to escape financial ruin, his public defender said Wednesday. ...more

January 21, 2009

A motion of acquittal was granted in the trial of a Lake Placid man charged with operating a grow house. ...more

January 21, 2009

An attorney for condemned killer Joseph Smith is asking the Florida Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence. Smith was sentenced to death for killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in 2004. His abduction of the middle school student was captured on security cameras and broadcast nationwide. ...more

January 7, 2009

The man who led authorities on an eight-hour manhunt through Plant City in December pleaded not guilty to 14 felony charges today. ...more

January 6, 2009

A federal judge today ordered that a man accused of writing threatening letters to judges be sent to a medical facility to be mentally evaluated. ...more

November 19, 2008

The prosecutor and the victim's family want a judge to reduce the sentence of a man who participated in the killing of a Haines City police officer nearly 11 years ago. ...more

November 14, 2008

Despite tight budgets, county commissioners recently decided to pay $198,000 to extend a program another year to help mentally ill people who might otherwise wind up in jails. ...more

November 9, 2008