Bernard Madoff will plead guilty Thursday to 11 criminal counts including money laundering, perjury and securities, mail and wire fraud and will do so without a plea deal, knowing it carries a potential prison term of 150 years, lawyers said today in court. ...more

March 10, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist's legal department is reviewing whether to suspend or remove Sebring City Councilman Dan Andrews from office following his arrest on three felony charges, according to a Sterling Ivey, spokesman for Crist, in Tallahassee. ...more

November 26, 2008

Hundreds of students gathered to watch a high school brawl that resulted in an injured teacher and two arrests. ...more

November 19, 2008

Chaos erupted Monday as a group of 86 people, including former army officers, a best-selling author and an ultra-nationalist lawyer, crowded into a prison courtroom for trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-oriented government. A panel of judges adjourned the proceeding, which later resumed with fewer suspects. ...more

October 21, 2008

Five teens accused in the videotaped beating of a Polk County cheerleader were due in court today but attorneys asked the judge to continue the proceeding until Nov. 18. Mercades Nichols, 17, Brittini Hardcastle, 17, April Cooper, 14, Britney Mayes, 17, and Kayla Hassell, 15, were scheduled for pretrial hearings this morning at the Polk County courthouse in Bartow. Their attorneys told Judge Keith Spoto they needed to delay the proceeding because of depositions set for later this month. The judge granted the requests. ...more

October 7, 2008

Rageive "Reggie" Chris Heaven, 23, of last known address: 3230 Carter Court, Sebring, (hasn't lived at address since November 2007) on a charge of failure to appear at sentencing for battery. ...more

July 28, 2008

The House today killed a bill that Democrats including Kathy Castor had pushed as a way to spur more drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 17, 2008

TAMPA - A former Newsome High School soccer coach facing a charge of unlawful sex with a minor will be offered a plea deal, prosecutors said. ...more

June 2, 2008

The city council took its first tentative step Thursday toward building a new baseball stadium on the downtown waterfront, giving the go-ahead for the city to solicit proposals to redevelop Tropicana Field. ...more

January 18, 2008