Raiford News

Nicole Brewington, accused of allowing her boyfriend to beat her son Zahid Jones Jr.

Inmate John Evander Couey, who was on death row for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005, has died at a Florida hospital, officials said on Wednesday.

A slug from a .357-caliber Magnum ended Ken Cooper's 13-year career as a bank robber and started him on the path toward redemption and a network of five prison ministries.

The inmate who allegedly stabbed to death his cellmate early Monday morning at Franklin Correctional Institution died Tuesday afternoon of an apparent suicide.

Using the state's retirement fund to reward friends and make themselves popular is nothing new for Florida legislators.

At the time of the killings, Victorino was 29 years old and out on bail for one assault and on probation for another.

Published: Monday, September 7, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, September 7, 2009 at 2:03 p.m. TAMPA, A Tampa woman who has been waiting more than two decades to hear the killer of her parents is dead, has finally gotten her wish.

Secretary Walter McNeil said in a conference call from Tallahassee that he has asked the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to look into the inmate's beatings, which occurred over a two-day period, Aug.

Secretary Walter McNeil said in a conference call from Tallahassee that he has asked the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to look into the inmate's beatings, which occurred over a two-day period, Aug.

Hundreds of men who say they were abused at a reform school here are not dropping their class-action lawsuit against the state, despite a draft Senate bill offering them reparations.

Submitted by T. F. Thompson on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 16:50. Ken Cooper's book is the story of a bank robber who turns his life around to become God's messenger.

A former Florida Department of Corrections sergeant was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for assaulting an inmate at the state prison in Raiford by pouring a bottle of scalding water on his chest.

Have you ever wondered what stories made headlines in Jacksonville 50 years ago? It may have been a different era of history, culture and politics, but there are often parallels between the kind of stories that made then and today.

Paul Tillis, a former Florida Department of Corrections officer, was sentenced today in federal court in Jacksonville, Fla., on a federal civil rights charge related to assaulting an inmate, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King.

The 16th Annual Spammy Jammy was held Saturday, June 28, in Goodland. Little Bar Restaurant GOODLAND - Spammy Jammy, held every June at the Little Bar in Goodland, has something to do with Spam, pajamas and warding off hurricanes.

The man who a confidential informant says videotaped the rape and murder of 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood in 2006 is in prison on charges unrelated to her death.

Goodland's Little Bar is hosting an event to appease Mother Nature with the pink, canned meat, Spam, at their 14th Annual Spammy Jammy, Saturday.

Justice in the slaying of a waitress was served 25 years late, but finally today after a 69-year-old man admitted to strangling her, according to the State Attorney's Office.

'Huge Disaster' Cleanup begins Body found in Holly Hill retention pond Sister of man found at landfill questions his death Remembrances wanted Anyone having photos or knowledge of the following former area residents, or any others from East Central Volusia County who died during military service in World War II, including Merchant Marines, please ...

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