The county mayor referendum has been struck from the November ballot, a circuit court judge ruled today. ...more

August 1, 2008

ORLANDO - An appeals court has denied a bond reduction request for the mother of a 2-year-old missing girl. ...more

July 30, 2008

Attorney John Trevena mailed Gov. Charlie Crist a letter today asking him to appoint a special prosecutor to review how the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office have handled the investigation of the disappearance of 5-month-old Sabrina Paige Aisenberg. ...more

July 30, 2008

A Hillsborough Circuit Court judge on Monday dismissed armed kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated assault charges against two suspected Latin Kings gang members. ...more

July 29, 2008

MIAMI (AP) -- The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday. ...more

July 24, 2008

Hope remains that a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl is still alive, although prosecutors say the case is beginning to look like a homicide. The girls mother, Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with child neglect and lying to investigators. Circuit Court Judge Stan Strickland set her bond at $500,000 Tuesday, saying the law did not allow him to hold her without bail. ...more

July 24, 2008

Thinking out loud until it started to hurt... Johnny Miller issued an apology for comments made during Tiger Woods' U.S. Open victory that including a suggestion that Rocco Mediate "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool.'' Reached for comment at his neighborhood Pinch A Penny, Mediate said no offense was taken. ...more

June 28, 2008

ILLINOIS - A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust." ...more

June 15, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. ...more

June 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Stanley R. Mills wrote that Deerwood Academy was overpaid when the district gave the school its per-student funding. The school received $292,863, but didn't enroll enough students to earn that amount and should have been given $199,364, Mills wrote. ...more

June 12, 2008