The state will not prosecute a woman accused of inappropriately disciplining four children at the day care center she ran. ...more

November 19, 2009

More than two years after he was arrested - and after two courts have since ruled in his favor - the federal government has dropped its legal pursuit of Youssef Megahed. ...more

November 6, 2009

A House panel has rejected a request from former House Speaker Ray Sansom that it suspend its investigation into his conduct while criminal proceedings against him are still pending. ...more

November 5, 2009

Former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom wants lawmakers to delay his ethics case until criminal charges against him are resolved. ...more

November 5, 2009

St. Petersburg authorities began exhuming this morning the body of a woman buried in 1948 to see if it matches a skull found in a former gravedigger's home. ...more

October 29, 2009

Friends say the mother of the little boy at the center of the Colorado balloon case is devoted - even subservient - to her inventor husband and her kids, so why would she allegedly tell sheriff's deputies that the whole thing was a hoax? ...more

October 27, 2009

DENVER (AP) — Friends say the mother of the little boy at the center of the Colorado balloon case is devoted — even subservient — to her inventor husband and her kids, so why would she allegedly tell sheriff's deputies that the whole thing was a hoax? ...more

October 26, 2009

A 32-year-old lunchroom aide at Spoto High School has been suspended without pay after acknowledging, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, that she had an inappropriate relationship with a student. ...more

October 24, 2009

A hearing is scheduled in the murder case against Casey Anthony, the Florida mother charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter. ...more

October 16, 2009

Federal authorities made 1,785 arrests nationwide, including 138 in Florida, during a six-month initiative by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...more

October 16, 2009