One of five teenage girls facing charges in the videotaped beating of a Polk County cheerleader accepted a plea deal Tuesday morning. Mercades Nichols, 18, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery, which carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail. ...more

January 27, 2009

Brittany Mayes, one of five Polk County teens accused in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay, pleaded guilty today to one charge of misdemeanor battery. A judge will make a decision on Mayes' sentence on March 5. The maximum penalty for the charge is one year in jail. ...more

January 20, 2009

Christopher Cutugno drew the break of his life Friday, as Circuit Judge Jack Day sentenced him just two years of house arrest followed by four years probation for his role in the March beatings of two fellow teenagers. ...more

December 19, 2008

Trial opened Wednesday for a man accused of molesting a girl when she was 14. ...more

December 18, 2008

The second of three people charged in the March 1 beating of two teenagers pleaded guilty Wednesday. ...more

December 18, 2008

The second of three people charged in the beating March 1 of two teenagers pleaded guilty today. ...more

December 17, 2008

A 20-year-old Titusville man was sentenced to four years in prison today after authorities said he sexually assaulted his grandparents' Yorkshire terrier in Clearwater. ...more

November 25, 2008

The state and defense rested their cases Wednesday afternoon in the second-degree murder trial of Sharon Sprout. ...more

November 20, 2008

A man accused of being involved in a plot to kill a Sarasota couple pleaded guilty this afternoon in U.S. District Court. ...more

October 27, 2008

Scott Overbeck, a man who figured prominently this year in the investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge. ...more

October 24, 2008