The mother of a missing central Florida toddler was released from jail on $500,000 bail Thursday and ordered to return to her parents' home, where authorities will monitor her with an electronic ankle device. ...more

August 21, 2008

Peter Padilla's drug debts were more important to him than his brand new Cadillac Escalade. That's what the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says in court documents charging Padilla, 49, with arson, burning to defraud an insurer, making false insurance claims, dealing in stolen property and making a false report to law enforcement. ...more

August 21, 2008

The U.S. Attorney's Office has reached a plea agreement with a St. Petersburg man accused of participating in a complicated mortgage fraud scheme. ...more

August 13, 2008

Answers to one of the nation's highest profile unsolved crimes are in documents that could be released as early as this week - and help explain how the government chased the wrong suspect for years, officials said. ...more

August 3, 2008

A detective with the St. Petersburg Police Department is on administrative leave with pay while investigators try to determine her role – if any – in her estranged husband's alleged marijuana dealing, according to police officials and court documents. ...more

July 29, 2008

A former St. Petersburg man has been extradited from Michigan to face charges he raped a girl last year, impregnating her in the process, according to court documents unsealed this morning. Ken M. Gordon, 30, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning on one count of sexual battery. Bail was set at $250,000. ...more

July 21, 2008

Lawyers William Winters and Marc Yonker - famous locally for ads on billboards, phone books and Web sites - must pay their former employer more than $1.7 million for stealing his clients, a judge ruled Friday. ...more

July 12, 2008

TAMPA - Lawyers William Winters and Marc Yonker – famous locally for ads on billboards, phone books and Web sites – must pay their former employer more than $1.7 million for stealing his clients, a judge ruled today. ...more

July 11, 2008

The Fort Lauderdale police chief says he is concerned about his wife's health if she remains in the Broward County Jail. ...more

July 11, 2008

The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not only to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate. ...more

July 11, 2008