Joshua Phillips has spent 25½ years behind bars for something that even he described as "horrible" and "unfathomable." At the age of 14, he beat and stabbed his 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton to ...

Joshua Phillips, who killed his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton, in November 1998, when he was 14 years old, was in court briefly Monday, where his attorney requested the judge push back a hearing ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The man who was a teen when he killed an 8-year-old Jacksonville girl is appealing his sentence of life in prison. Joshua Phillips was 14 when he killed 8-year-old Maddie Clifton ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The family of Maddie Clifton, an 8-year-old whose murder shook the entire community in 1998, spoke up about an upcoming sentence review for her killer. Joshua Phillips, 41, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In one of the highest-profile cases in Jacksonville in recent decades, a state appeals court Tuesday upheld the life sentence of a neighbor convicted in the 1998 murder of ...

JACKSONVILLE — She'd pull four plates, four forks and four knives from the cupboard and then it would hit her: There were only three in the family now. Jessie Clifton was 11 when in 1998 her ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: Joshua Phillips was back in Duval County Court on Monday morning. His attorneys are asking the judge to review his life sentence. The judge agreed to a July 8 status ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More than two decades after an 8-year-old girl was murdered in Jacksonville, the Florida Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal by a man convicted in the high-profile case.

A man convicted as a teenager of one of Jacksonville’s most notorious crimes is appealing his life sentence to the Florida Supreme Court. Joshua Phillips, now 34, was convicted at age 14 of killing ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A case that shares similarities to Aiden Fucci’s case was vaguely mentioned during his sentencing trial for the murder of Tristyn Bailey. In 1998, 14-year-old Joshua Phillips, who ...