Attorneys for the suspect in last year's Florida school massacre will ask a judge to let them question his former mental health counselors without prosecutors present.
Attorneys for Nikolas Cruz are scheduled Thursday to ask Judge Elizabeth Scherer for permission to question the counselors without notifying prosecutors or allowing their attendance. The counselors treated Cruz before the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas... [...]
MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami police officer has been sentenced to 15 ½ years in prison for her involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
Court records show that Schonton Harris was sentenced Wednesday in Miami federal court. She previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to possess cocaine.
Investigators say Harris provided police protection for what she believed were large shipments of cocaine on three... [...]
The father of a South Florida woman suspected of making threats against multiple schools in Colorado, including Columbine High School, is begging for his daughter to come home and turn herself in.
Authorities are searching for 18-year-old Sol Pais, of Surfside, who traveled to Colorado on Monday night. Police said she made threats to more than 20 schools, including Columbine High School, just days before the 20-year mark of the mass... [...]
A Florida man who pleaded guilty to sending pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump will be sentenced in August rather than September, a judge said Monday.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff set the Aug. 5 date to determine the penalty for Cesar Sayoc after his lawyer, Sarah Jane Baumgartel, said Sayoc was anxious about the sentencing.
Sayoc, 57, could face life in prison for spreading terror in the days leading up to... [...]
A Florida jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of first-degree murder for dropping his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge four years ago.
Jurors in Clearwater, Florida, deliberated for about seven hours over two days before convicting John Jonchuck.
Jonchuck hugged his attorneys and said, "Yes, your honor," when asked if he understood that the verdict carries an automatic life sentence. He was then fingerprinted and taken out of the... [...]
