When Byron Simmons showed up at a little league game in February to watch his 10-year-old son play, he volunteered to act as an umpire when one failed to show. What the staff didn't know was that Simmons was a convicted sexual offender. ...more

May 30, 2008

TAMPA - A registered sexual offender released from prison in November was arrested Sunday on a charge of raping a 10-year-old girl. ...more

May 25, 2008

When dozens of female employees filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections alleging they were subjected to a hostile, repulsive work environment, they wanted one thing: to be heard. ...more

May 24, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $7,000 bail Tuesday, after being taken into custody from the Florida Department of Corrections in connection with a Jan. 28, 2007 alleged forged check theft from Amscot. ...more

May 7, 2008

A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections. ...more

May 7, 2008

TAMPA - Police are seeking the public's help in locating a man wanted in the Feb. 13 fatal shooting of another man in the Sulphur Springs area. ...more

February 22, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- One week after his appointment as secretary of Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice, State Rep. Frank Peterman today is expected to endorse local lawyer Darryl Rouson as his successor. ...more

February 15, 2008

State Rep. Frank Peterman, D-St. Petersburg, is expected to be named today to head the Department of Juvenile Justice. ...more

February 8, 2008

About a dozen sex offenders living under a bridge linking Miami to Miami Beach have until today to find another place to call home, officials said. ...more

February 4, 2008

1.24 miles away. ...more

January 29, 2008