A former local lawyer and Chicago police officer received a 10-year federal prison sentence Friday for sending threatening letters to his estranged wife and others while in state prison. ...more

March 7, 2009

One of five teenage girls charged in the beating of another teen was sentenced today to three years of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery. Circuit Judge Keith Spoto also sentenced Mercades Nichols to 100 hours of community service and ordered that she pay restitution to victim Victoria Lindsay. ...more

March 6, 2009

Police say rapper N.O.R.E. was arrested following a fight with a person at a Miami Beach burger joint. ...more

February 23, 2009

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February 20, 2009

Charles Lein, 70, didn't like seeing the young man speeding in the neighborhood, he told Pasco County deputies. ...more

February 18, 2009

Polk County deputies have charged the mother of one of the girls involved in the beating of a teenage girl recorded for YouTube with domestic battery in an unrelated incident. ...more

February 15, 2009

An argument over taking the last beer led a Lutz man to punch his brother in the head and strike him with a glass Wednesday night, Hillsborough County deputies say. The man repeatedly slammed a bathroom door on his mother's arm as she tried to intervene. ...more

February 12, 2009

A March hearing was set today for Vidal Mills, facing misdemeanor battery charges for beating a teen who allegedly boasted of killing his son – Jefferson High School football star Cedric "C.J." Mills. ...more

February 5, 2009

Brittni Hardcastle, a Polk County teen accused in the world-famous videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay, pleaded guilty today to felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery. ...more

January 29, 2009

A taxi driver was beaten early Saturday morning by the intoxicated man who had called for a ride home from a bar. ...more

January 28, 2009