Tag: crime

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida judge refused to grant a new trial for a former escort convicted of trying to hire a hit man to murder her newlywed husband.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A city pension board has granted early-retirement benefits to a Florida police officer who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after he responded to a shooting massacre at a gay night club in Florida.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida sheriff's deputy was arrested on DUI charges when he crashed his truck into a pedestrian bridge near Disney Springs at Walt Disney World.

MIAMI (AP) — A 63-year-old Florida man who became irate over the response time for service on his dead car battery is accused of fatally shooting a service technician from AAA.

GARDENDALE, Ala. (AP) — Three people gunned down at the start of a daylong drama were victims of what authorities called a carefully planned ambush by a 52-year-old Florida man who then fatally shot himself in a parking lot in Florida as police closed in on him.

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- A stash of cocaine hidden inside a Cookie Monster doll has landed a Florida man in jail on a drug charge.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Two Florida boys ages 11 and 12 have been arrested on charges they raped an 11-year-old girl.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Nine people were charged Tuesday with agreeing to help concoct alibis for a Florida murder suspect who last year staged a brazen escape from a crowded courtroom and is accused of killing a woman whose family founded the Halliburton oil services company.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to suffocating a 5-year-old boy with a trash bag almost two decades ago and received a 30-year sentence.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A teenager is suing a University of South Florida fraternity, saying that a member sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious at a chapter party.