The head of the state agency that protects children has called the arrest of its spokesman on child pornography charges "a setback" to efforts to repair its troubled image. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - The former spokesman for Florida's agency that protects children made his first court appearance today on eight counts of using a child in a sexual performance. Al Zimmerman's bail was doubled to $120,000 and a hearing was set for Monday to determine if it should be raised even higher, said Sandi Copes, spokeswoman for the Florida Office of the Attorney General. ...more

February 2, 2008

Live Oak Preserve developer TOUSA on Tuesday joined a growing list of South Florida homebuilders to file for Chapter 11 restructuring. ...more

January 30, 2008

Rap artist R. Kelly was scheduled to appear in court in Chicago today to face charges he videotaped sex acts with a minor girl in or before 2000. ...more

January 14, 2008

A drifter accused of kidnapping and decapitating a 24-year-old hiker in Georgia is now a suspect in the slaying of a Florida woman whose body was found last month in a national forest, authorities said Wednesday. ...more

January 10, 2008

Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge refused to throw out his 1992 no-contest plea to fraud. ...more

January 5, 2008

A woman and her boyfriend acknowledged they methodically gunned down her parents and four other family members in rural Washington on Christmas Eve, according to authorities' affidavits filed in court Thursday. ...more

December 28, 2007

Monday's shooting of two East Bay High School students near the entrance to the Carriage Pointe subdivision stemmed from one student ordering another to kiss his shoes, a neighbor says. ...more

December 19, 2007

Days after attempting suicide, a Florida murder suspect told a Georgia judge that rather than extradition to Florida or more time in a Georgia jail, he'd prefer to have his mother come pick him up. ...more

December 12, 2007

A 42-year-old Polk County man was arrested by the FBI Monday night in connection with a threat against an airliner bound for Atlanta from Orlando. ...more

December 11, 2007