"Live and let live" masks a shallow philosophy. If it worked, we could loose all prisoners. Four law officers murdered in Washington this past week would be alive. Instead of learning from tragedies, we foster them. Our solutions resemble weakening our coffee so much we might as well drink mud. ...more

December 3, 2009

Christine Lightfoot's reaction to a seemingly harmless teenage wisecrack will send her to prison for two decades. ...more

December 3, 2009

Tests of DNA taken from items seized in the Walker Middle School rape case didn't find matches for any of the four teenage defendants, according to a report released today. ...more

December 2, 2009

Christine Lightfoot's reaction to a seemingly harmless teenage wisecrack will send her to prison for two decades. ...more

December 2, 2009

A man accused of shooting four relatives to death after Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida told family members he had been waiting 20 years to kill them, the father of one of the victims said today. ...more

December 1, 2009

Prosecutors have dropped two of the four rape charges against a former Walker Middle School student accused along with three schoolmates of using a broomstick and hockey stick to sodomize a student in a locker room. ...more

December 1, 2009

When prosecutors try Humberto Delgado Jr. in the killing of Tampa police Cpl. Mike Roberts, they may use a surveillance video showing the incident. The tape came from cameras at Simo Stone, a granite and marble distributor at 8625 N. Nebraska Ave. ...more

November 25, 2009

The youngest of the five teenagers accused of surrounding Deerfield Beach teenager Michael Brewer and setting him on fire last month made his first public statement Tuesday, wishing his former friend a full and speedy recovery. ...more

November 24, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An attorney for an Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack at Fort Hood says his client will likely plead not guilty and may pursue an insanity defense at his military trial. ...more

November 23, 2009

"Suffer little children to come to me ..." So begins one of the most cited passages in the Bible. Yet, in cases involving the deaths of children in faith-healing families, the second half of Jesus's admonition from Luke 18:16 is at the heart of legal controversy: "... and forbid them not." ...more

November 22, 2009