Charges have been dropped against three of the eight teenagers accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl in Lakeland in March and recording the incident. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA -- Charges have been dropped against three of the eight teenagers accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl in Polk County and recording the incident. Charges were dropped against both boys accused in the incident, Stephen Thomas Schumaker and Zachary Ashley, as well as Cara Murphy, Polk County State Attorney's Office spokesman Chip Thullbery said ...more

June 13, 2008

Will Skip This Election Regarding "A Mistake To Not Vote" (Letters, June 10): ...more

June 13, 2008

NASCAR chairman Brian France denied Wednesday that a former official complained to her supervisors about racial and sexual discrimination, claims she alleged led to her eventual firing. ...more

June 12, 2008

To the surprise of civil rights advocates, the Supreme Court on Tuesday strengthened workplace anti-discrimination laws, ruling that employees who say they were punished for complaining of bias can sue. ...more

May 28, 2008

When Army Spc. Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and free thinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. ...more

May 10, 2008

LAKEWOOD RANCH - A Jewish family in Lakewood Ranch had a swastika painted on their door this week in what the resident said was clearly a hate crime. ...more

May 8, 2008

The U.S. intelligence chief said Sunday that internal Hezbollah groups or Syria may be to blame for the killing of a Hezbollah commander that has led the FBI to put domestic terror squads on alert in the United States. ...more

February 18, 2008

The Senate voted Wednesday to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques. ...more

February 14, 2008

She awoke at 4 a.m. with smoke in her lungs and fire at her window. Her children snuggled next to her in bed. ...more

February 10, 2008