LAND O' LAKES - A 31-year-old former Port Richey lawyer, who's already spent time in jail on contempt of court charges, has been arrested on four felony counts of grand theft after a Florida Bar investigation that led to a criminal probe. ...more

February 7, 2009

A 31-year-old former Port Richey lawyer, who's already spent time in jail on contempt of court charges, has been arrested on four felony counts of grand theft following a Florida Bar investigation that led to a criminal probe. ...more

February 6, 2009

Highlands County commissioners are deciding whether the county should lift its ban on private landfills. It's, no doubt, a difficult decision, but there are big potential problems if they allow private dumping, and we hope that if they do allow it, there are strong stipulations. ...more

January 23, 2009

If you just re-discovered the gift card in your wallet — lodged in between the movie stubs and tattered coupon — you're not alone. ...more

November 29, 2008

Former lawyer Jessica Miller was sent to jail Monday after a judge found her in contempt of court for failing to appear at a hearing last year. ...more

June 24, 2008

Lawyer Jessica Miller got a look at the Pasco County Jail from behind bars Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

The Florida Supreme Court has disciplined two Sarasota lawyers, including suspending one who landed on the state's 2005 list of Top 10 scam artists. ...more

December 7, 2007

SEBRING — By the time Gary Christopher Ingmire Jr. gets out of prison, his victim will be 94 years old and the con artist will owe her some serious money. Judge Peter Estrada sentenced Ingmire, 27, of Sebring, to 15 years in prison Thursday morning at the Highlands County Courthouse, on a count of scheming to defraud more than $50,000, for borrowing money from a 79-year-old Sebring woman over a two-and-a-half-year period. "A crime against an elderly person is not only a crime against the person," said Estrada as he was rendering Ingmire's sentence. "It's a crime against society." ...more

October 26, 2007