With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse on Friday over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 28, 2009

With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse today over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 27, 2009

Haines City police are looking for a man suspected of abducting an 11-year-old child this morning from the gated community of Southern Dunes. ...more

February 13, 2009

The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff took unusual twists Wednesday as the U.S. attorney general removed himself and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business. ...more

December 18, 2008

Fees, fees, fees. Gee, can't wait to go to the park and read advertisements. It's like the fun of walking nature trails and running into beer cans. Well, I guess that's "ads" also. ...more

October 4, 2008

Schoolteacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave no longer will have to provide Florida Department of Corrections officials her daily schedule, and they no longer will keep minute-by-minute track of her whereabouts. ...more

July 11, 2008

A man accused of offering a woman money so he could have sex with her two young children cut off his electronic ankle bracelet Sunday and disappeared, his attorney said. ...more

June 10, 2008

TAMPA - A man accused of offering a woman money so he could have sex with her two young children cut off his electronic ankle bracelet Sunday and disappeared, his attorney said. ...more

June 9, 2008

Suck It Up, Nick Regarding "Bollea's Lawyers Fight His Isolation" (front page, June 3): ...more

June 6, 2008

CLEARWATER – Likening their client's situation to that of a troublesome inmate kept in solitary confinement, Nick Bollea's attorneys have filed court papers asking a circuit judge to let the 17-year-old go home until he is old enough to serve the remainder of his sentence with other inmates at Pinellas County Jail. ...more

June 2, 2008