When Delores Kietzer and a friend recently purchased four frozen turkeys, they never expected one to get away.

Five correctional officers charged in October with animal cruelty for fondling a K-9 dog and videotaping the incidents will not be prosecuted.

Convicted rapist Jerrod Pass was sentenced to three more life terms Tuesday, bringing his total to six.

The stench of feces hung 15 feet from the walls of the house. Behind those walls, authorities said, a mystery of abuse and neglect unraveled.

A woman faces domestic battery charges after reportedly trying to stop her boyfriend from calling his ex-wife by sitting on his face, along with allegedly slapping and scratching him.

Tasha Johnson and Markeith Brown exchanged vows. And the wedding party exchanged blows.

Two men and woman who said they were agents with a drug task force handcuffed a woman, sexually assaulted her during a strip search and hauled her off to jail.

A woman who left her 8-year-old son on the side of a road after arguing with him about his performance in a bicycle race was convicted yesterday of contributing to his delinquency and given a 12-month suspended jail term.

A young woman was on her porch playing with a little stray puppy she’d all but adopted when a white Ford Ranger pulled up Friday.

Charlie Owens, owner of Charlie’s Service Center vehicle-repair shop, couldn’t help himself this spring when he went to gather up a stray cat’s kittens for a customer who agreed to adopt them—and saw one kitten, bearing an amazing 24 toes, sadly staring up at him.

A middle-school teacher who was accused of being drunk in her classroom in March has reached a proposed settlement with the Florida Department of Education.

A judge yesterday described conditions in a home overrun with dozens of cats as the most grotesque he has seen in 25 years of judicial service.

The smell of cats is so strong outside Jim Zimmer’s apartment, neighbors called authorities, who found 25 cats inside, one of them dead.

Police found a 6-month-old surprise waiting for them when they answered a call to a Dale City home. And the father of the little surprise was put in jail.

Richmond police say a man who engaged the services of a prostitute resorted to force to get his money back because he was dissatisfied.