A former Walker Middle School student charged with petty theft while out on bail in a rape case will be freed from jail. ...more

October 28, 2009

Judi Barrett of Hudson, founder of the group Enraged People Against Rape, wonders why there is not more outrage over the rape last week of an 89-year-old West Pasco woman. ...more

April 15, 2009

Warden Rod James asked the busload of arriving inmates to raise their hands if they had been incarcerated at least once before. ...more

February 9, 2009

Warden Rod James asked the busload of arriving inmates to raise their hands if they had been incarcerated at least once before. ...more

February 8, 2009

A federal inmate at the county jail claims staff deprived him of legal services and beat him when he made a formal complaint about it. ...more

November 11, 2008

The judge's indignant remarks came a day after a jury acquitted a man of charges he had struck two Gulfport police officers. ...more

October 11, 2008

Pinellas Judge rejects a prosecutors demands for restituition in a case where Gulfport police beat and tasered a man in what began as a trespassing case. ...more

October 10, 2008

A former driver for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Thursday to 51/2 years in prison for his material support for terrorism, a relatively light sentence that means the first detainee at Guantanamo Bay to face a full military commission trial could be released from custody in just five months. ...more

August 8, 2008

Joseph Valdez used narcotics for more than a decade before he died of an overdose in April 2007. He was 32. Here is a timeline of his quest for drugs in the months before his death. ...more

August 1, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The mother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl argued with her mother and said she didn't know the whereabouts of her child in a telephone call from jail released Friday. ...more

July 25, 2008