The Polk County Sheriff's Office recently settled a lawsuit over the death of Shaun Seaman, who was killed by a violent ...

Charges included traveling to seduce, solicit or lure a child to commit a sex act; and use of a computer to solicit a child ...

SARSOTA COUNTY, Fla. — In Sarasota County, one commissioner says the jail population has reached an "emergency" level. Numbers given to Spectrum News by the sheriff's office confirm the situation: ...

UPDATE: The Sumter County Sheriff's Office says Joseph Brown was captured near County Road 675 late Sunday night. Original story below: BUSHNELL, Fla. — An inmate has escaped from the Sumter County ...

The man's lawyers contend that two members of Georgia's parole board have conflicts of interest which would taint their ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Court records have revealed new details about how three ...

A trio of inmates who busted out of a Georgia county jail allegedly held an unsuspecting Lyft driver hostage and commandeered her car — forcing her to tag along on their escape to Florida, where they ...

Authorities say three inmates have escaped from a jail near Atlanta and hijacked a Lyft car to reach south Florida.

ATLANTA — Three escaped inmates wrapped a rope around their Lyft driver’s neck, tied her wrists and dragged her into the car’s back seat during a 10-hour getaway trip from metro Atlanta to South ...