3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (519+ words) It turns out “peer mediation” looks a little different to some. A Florida middle school teacher found herself trading her classroom for a jail cell after allegedly trying to crowd-source a battery on a talkative sixth grader. Judith Clark, 64, was…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (259+ words) POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Lakeland man is facing criminal charges this week after a Sunday evening tear through a local neighborhood left a trail of broken property and a very blurry memory. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies caught up with 27-year-old…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (484+ words) A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a 1991 traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. He becomes the third person put to death by the state this year, following a record…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (508+ words) Amidst a gruesome crime scene marked by a decorated tree and wrapped presents, investigators discovered a desperate, handwritten plea from a wife to her husband. “You’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again. This is not the way the family should be....