A judge is set to decide Thursday whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children of her family and friends. ...more

October 27, 2009

A former adoption agency director who overcharged adoptive parents must repay about $178,000 to her victims as part of a plea bargain accepted Monday. ...more

October 27, 2009

Over the objections of prosecutors, a judge agreed Friday that some of Jasmine Bedwell's past can be brought up in the trial of her former boyfriend, charged with killing her 3-month-old son and throwing the infant out of a moving car. ...more

October 24, 2009

Eloise Mudway is getting the deed to her house back. Joseph and Cynthia Clancy, the couple recently convicted of stealing the 2,900-square-foot home from the 92-year-old woman, got sentences of 10 years each in state prison. ...more

October 23, 2009

A Pinellas-Pasco circuit judge said Wednesday that Nick Bollea does not have to travel from California, where he now lives, to Florida to be deposed in a lawsuit filed against him after a wreck that left a friend with permanent brain damage. ...more

October 22, 2009

A Pinellas-Pasco circuit judge said today that Nick Bollea does not have to travel from California, where he now lives, to Florida in order to be deposed in a lawsuit filed against him after a wreck that left a friend with permanent brain damage. The guardian for the friend, John Graziano, is suing Bollea, along with Bollea's parents – famed former wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, and Linda Bollea. ...more

October 21, 2009

The public will begin picking up the defense tab for Stephanie Ragusa, a former Hillsborough County middle school teacher accused of having sex with two students. Circuit Judge Wayne S. Timmerman granted a request today by Ragusa's attorney, Robert Herce, to have his client declared indigent. Prosecutors did not object. ...more

September 30, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court has ordered the state to reimburse $70,000 to Hillsborough Circuit Judge Gregory Holder for his expenses in successfully defending himself against plagiarism charges. ...more

September 26, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court has ordered the state to reimburse $70,000 to Hillsborough Circuit Judge Gregory Holder for his expenses in successfully defending himself against plagiarism charges. ...more

September 25, 2009

A Leon County judge ruled Wednesday that the state can prosecute former House Speaker Ray Sansom and two other defendants at the same time on charges of official misconduct. ...more

September 10, 2009