One of east Pasco County's oldest pending criminal cases was resolved Thursday when Michael Louis Berencsi pleaded guilty to manslaughter. ...more

October 30, 2009

Former state Judge Thomas Stringer may dread the next Friday the 13th. ...more

September 11, 2009

A 62-year-old Palm Bay man pleaded not guilty this afternoon to a charge he falsely claimed to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. ...more

June 25, 2009

A former spokesman for the state Department of Children & Families was sentenced this morning to 24 years and four months in prison for making child pornography. Al Zimmerman, 41, pleaded guilty in January to a child pornography charge. ...more

May 8, 2009

Bernard Madoff's guilty plea Thursday must not end the government's efforts to find answers - and more potential culprits - in the biggest financial fraud in history. The 70-year-old Madoff deserves what amounts to a life sentence for defrauding 4,800 investors with his high-flying Ponzi scheme. ...more

March 14, 2009

Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed," Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty today to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the applause of his seething victims in the courtroom. ...more

March 12, 2009

Bernard Madoff has yet to face the many investors he is accused of ripping off in a jaw-dropping Ponzi scheme that amounted to one of the biggest financial frauds in history. ...more

March 9, 2009

Bernard Madoff could soon find himself in a courtroom with some of the same devastated investors who he is accused of ripping off in one of the biggest financial frauds in history. ...more

March 7, 2009

Bernard Madoff has taken steps that suggest he could plead guilty as early as next week to charges that he carried out one of the biggest financial frauds in history, lawyers said Friday. ...more

March 7, 2009

One of five teenage girls charged in the beating of another teen was sentenced today to three years of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery. Circuit Judge Keith Spoto also sentenced Mercades Nichols to 100 hours of community service and ordered that she pay restitution to victim Victoria Lindsay. ...more

March 6, 2009