law and order

TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — While two escaped murderers released through forged documents were back in custody late Saturday, the head of…

Common Core meetings to kick off this week, escaped convicts caught as hunt turns to their accomplices, and Duval County's new education lobbyist are in…

The Associated Press reports that two convicted murderers from Florida who used phony documents to escape prison were arrested Saturday night without incident at a motel in Panama City, Fla.

Fewer Floridians died from drug overdose last year than the year before—and the number dying from the prescription painkiller oxycodone dropped by 41

The manhunt for convicted killers Joesph Jenkins and Charles Walker continues today after authorities said they were erroneously released from Franklin…

Michael Dunn, the sole suspect in the shooting death of Jacksonville teenager Jordan Davis at a gas station last year, thinks the press covering his case…

Last night Florida executed a Death Row inmate, the 14th execution performed by the state thus far this year. 51-year-old William Happ was executed by…

TALLAHASSEE (The News Service of Florida) — As state legislators have tried and failed to craft a juvenile-sentencing law that conforms to landmark U.S.…

Rebecca Sedgwick will never graduate from high school or attend the prom. Shell never sit in the stands of a homecoming football game. She did not live to

Rebecca Sedwick, a 12-year-old seventh-grader in Lakeland, Fla., jumped to her death from an abandoned silo after enduring bullying both online and face-to-face.