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

Five debt reduction companies left customers in worse financial shape, according to lawsuits filed by the Florida Attorney General's Office. ...more

October 20, 2009

An associate dean at the University of South Florida has admitted to taking a student's bicycle this week in a theft that was captured on a surveillance tape and later posted on YouTube. ...more

February 14, 2009

AirTran Airways says nine Muslim passengers, including three children, were removed from a flight from Washington to Orlando after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark. ...more

January 2, 2009

In a recent letter to the editor, Henry Bozic of Avon Park stated he received a telephone solicitation from the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and has mistakenly concluded that the telephone solicitation was in some way connected to my sheriff's campaign fund raising efforts. ...more

November 12, 2008

A judge on Thursday dismissed a probation violation charge lodged against Robert Bruce Pettyjohn, who pleaded guilty to being part of a two-month animal cruelty spree in 2001. ...more

November 7, 2008

A judge dismissed a probation violation charge today lodged against Robert Bruce Pettyjohn, who pleaded guilty to being part of a two-month animal cruelty spree in 2001. ...more

November 6, 2008

Friends of an 18-year-old woman who was raped and beaten at Bloomingdale Regional Library in April once again are turning to the community for help. ...more

October 23, 2008

Police have accused a black man of committing a hate crime against a white Hispanic man by yelling racial slurs and throwing a bottle at him. ...more

October 17, 2008

Your sports page may have recently induced an unpleasant sense of deja vu. A pro football star, by all accounts, seemed caught in a spiral of depression. Friends and advisers were worried enough about suicide to call the police. After an ensuing public-relations fracas, the player and the team assured us that it was all a grand misunderstanding. ...more

September 28, 2008