For genuinely civilized members of this (as far as we know, still) free nation, few acts of our democratic republic surpass executions for their ability to induce gooseflesh. ...more

February 13, 2009

It took Wayne Tompkins about five minutes to fatally strangle his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

It took Wayne Tompkins about five minutes to fatally strangle his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soda and waiting for men to approach and hand them cash. ...more

October 4, 2008

TAMPA - A former bus driver for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit accused of making sexual advances toward a passenger and not letting her off the bus will not be charged. ...more

June 25, 2008

His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless shelter. ...more

June 17, 2008

Hillsborough Commissioner Kevin White deserves his day in court on allegations that he sexually harassed a former aide. But no matter how this case turns out, taxpayers will pay the price. ...more

June 11, 2008

Authorities are hunting for the man and woman who robbed a 93-year-old man in his home Thursday night. ...more

May 23, 2008

This is in regard to a letter by Charles J. Guth, who was writing his support of his good friend Dale Leland, charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl. Mr. Guth claims he wishes he could have been in court to support his child molesting friend. I wonder why he wasn't? Apparently, he feels that a sentence of six and a half years is too severe for a charge of stealing a young girl's innocence, causing her to learn some very hard lessons about men way too soon, and suffering untold emotional trauma. He goes on to place the blame on the child for not resisting, intimating that because she was not a "tiny child" she somehow should have known what to do to defend herself from the sexual advances of a grown man. Unbelievable to me. ...more

November 15, 2007

United HealthCare of Florida Inc. has agreed to pay an unprecedented $1.8 million to settle federal accusations of same-sex harassment by one of its former top executives. ...more

October 18, 2007