LAND O' LAKES - A teacher who successfully fought to keep his job after he was accused of assaulting a student will receive back pay for the nine months he was suspended. ...more

October 7, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A 16-year-old boy sought in the slaying of a 60-year-old man last week has turned himself in to face a second-degree murder charge. ...more

July 22, 2009

LAND O' LAKES -- A 16-year-old boy sought in the slaying of a 60-year-old man last week has turned himself in to face a second-degree murder charge. Corey Lindsey Jr. of Zephyrhills turned himself in at the Land O' Lakes Detention Center at about 9 p.m. Monday. Lindsey is accused of fatally shooting Donald Watts of Zephyrhills. ...more

July 21, 2009

A man once convicted of vehicular homicide has been arrested on drug charges. Hillsborough County deputies arrested Corbin Legiles Nottingham at 10:50 p.m. Sunday. The 20-year-old Tampa man was arrested at 23rd Street and 138th Avenue and charged with possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell, possession of crack cocaine, and obstructing or opposing an officer without violence. He also was charged with violating probation on the vehicular homicide conviction. ...more

February 9, 2009

Brandon Michael Evans, who was convicted in 1996 of two counts of third-degree murder, was arrested again this morning. Evans, 28, of Tampa, was arrested at 12:11 a.m. today at Livingston and Bearss avenues. He was charged with violating probation and misdemeanor domestic battery. ...more

January 20, 2009

The official rebuke to the troubled Tampa Bay Academy comes at 5 p.m. today – the time when state regulators said they will suspend the academy's license for what they called "gross mismanagement" of mental health care. Barring a last-minute decision – the academy's executives have appealed to regulators with an improvement plan – the for-profit mental health center in Riverview will no longer be able to provide long-term residential care to children and teenagers who suffer from severe mental illness. ...more

January 9, 2009

State budget cuts are forcing some of the nation's youngest criminals out of counseling programs and group homes and into juvenile prisons in what critics contend is a shortsighted move that will eventually lead to more crime and higher costs. ...more

December 26, 2008

A Lakeland teen was arrested Tuesday, accused of stealing his grandfather's cattle then selling them at an auction, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

December 11, 2008

The combination of high gas prices and teens with empty pockets and wanderlust proved to be dangerous. ...more

October 9, 2008

Selling drugs. Thug life. Clubbing, drinking, smoking, partying. That's what the "191 Boys" were all about. That was basically Kion Wilson's life - as a 13-year-old growing up in Miami. ...more

September 25, 2008