A Manatee County judge will soon decide whether to grant bond for Ashley Benefield while she appeals her manslaughter ...

Ashley Benefield, 33, remained stony-faced as her ... Jurors acquitted the young mom of second-degree murder in July, agreeing she pulled the trigger in self-defense after her attorneys argued ...

Ashley Benefield's defense requested she be released on bond pending her appeal. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter with a firearm.

Four months later, she was sentenced. “You have managed to orphan not one, but two young girls,” Eva told Benefield. “Ashley, since the day you shot my father, I’ve only had one question ...

Ashley Benefield remained expressionless when Whyte ... She had previously sought injunctions that would have barred him from seeing their young child. She filed one in 2018 after he appeared ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - As Ashley Benefield sits behind bars at the Manatee County Jail, she continues to fight for her release. She is now waiting for a decision on the appeal of her conviction in ...

Ashley Benefield will appear in court today for a bond hearing regarding her release pending appeal. According to the defense team for Ashley Benefield, the hearing is to ...

A young woman shot her husband who was 30 years older than her and married him just 13 days after they first met. Concerned family and friends of Ashley Byers and Douglas Benefield believed they ...

The headline in a recent edition of the Sarasota Herald- Tribune – "Former Lakewood Ranch ballerina to serve 20 years" – ironically trumpeted an identical sentence for a teenager who was convicted ...

Saratoga County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Saturday morning shooting on Route 146 in Halfmoon. Law enforcement said one person is being treated at Albany Medical Center with non-life ...

The prosecution claimed Ashley Benefield shot and killed her husband in an attempt to gain sole custody of the couple’s young daughter, taking matters into her own hands after the courts and law ...