I forgot to give the readers of Criminal Brief a Yuletide short story this year. Luckily, Steve’s column last Friday provided me with a suitable title, so here it is, alas late, but you know what they say. I’ll be back next week with another Scribbler. —JLW A RETRIEVED REFORMATION by O. Henry A guard […]

FLORIDA CRIME NEWS by Leigh Lundin St. Cloud, Florida Until recently, St. Cloud provided community-wide internet service. Even after town fathers dropped it, the area where I stay still provides internet– simply plug your computer or router into a wall jack and you’re connected— until late Christmas day when an outage took 2½ days to fix. […]

THOUGHTS ON 1/1/11 by John M. Floyd A question for our readers: How are you on new year’s resolutions? Do you come up with things each January 1st that you feel you can accomplish or improve during the next twelve months? More importantly, do you fulfill those resolutions? Personally, I’m good at making them and […]