Joe Harris Sullivan was 13 in 1989 when he committed the crime that would put him away for life without possibility of parole: He raped an elderly woman. He had committed 17 other crimes in the two years before the brutal attack and his trial as an adult. ...more

November 16, 2009

After the brutal attack and a dramatic rescue in a Hillsborough County jail last week, a lot of people are questioning the wisdom of putting a lone deputy in a jail pod with dozens of inmates. ...more

November 11, 2009

Rihanna said Thursday that she regrets going back to ex-boyfriend Chris Brown after he left her bruised and battered during a February assault, warning other women facing domestic violence to not let themselves become blinded by love. ...more

November 6, 2009

Peno Hardesty of New Port Richey says the whole community must be heroes in effort to prevent rape. ...more

April 22, 2009

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before finding Linda Callam not guilty of second-degree murder in the March 29, 2007, stabbing death of her longtime boyfriend, Paul Pullins. ...more

February 20, 2009

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours today before finding Linda Callam not guilty of second-degree murder in the March 29, 2007, stabbing death of her longtime boyfriend, Paul Pullins. ...more

February 19, 2009

gies of the folks in Andersonville, the historic site has become a major tourist attraction. The Park includes rolling acres of similar gravestones, testifying silently to the thousands who perished under awful conditions. There also one can see markers indicating the extent of grounds once covered by the rotting hell that was the prison camp. A small, granite building covers the only, and inadequate, source of water, which served the teeming crowds that once swarmed over the now silent, green hills. Nearby, the Park Service has rebuilt the main gate to the prison. At another corner of the prison's one-time wooden wall, the Service has reconstructed that wall, with its guard tower; below the wall are recreations of prisoner "accommodations" (i.e., ragged tents). Nearby is the relatively new, National Prisoner of War Museum, which, while not focused on the Civil War alone, has become a major attraction in its own right. ...more

February 15, 2009

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday, several days after being found beaten in her home when she didn't answer her wake-up call, hospital officials said. ...more

October 25, 2008

How is it that we can treat an innocent victim like this? Someone needs to tell me the answer to this one. ...more

June 8, 2008

A metal pipe was the weapon used to beat a Brooksville woman into a coma and send her to a Tampa hospital in "extremely critical" condition. ...more

February 5, 2008