An appeals court has backed a local judge's decision that a towing company owner must stand trial for fatally shooting a man who was trying to reclaim his wife's towed car. ...more

January 8, 2010

Last week's first-degree murder trial of avowed neo-Nazi John Ditullio Jr. ended in a mistrial. All but two of the jurors were convinced Ditullio was innocent. During a hearing Monday, Ditullio was ordered to undergo a retrial in March of next year. Some have suggested the outcome of the trial might have been different if Circuit Judge Michael Andrews had not allowed the defense to have tattoos on Ditullio's face, including a Nazi swastika, covered by makeup. If Judge Andrews erred, he erred on the side of caution. ...more

December 16, 2009

Riding a bicycle without a bell in this city no longer is a crime. The city council on Thursday voted unanimously to repeal a two-decade-old law that made riding a bicycle without an audible bell a second-degree misdemeanor. ...more

October 2, 2009

Darryl C. Casanueva has been named chief judge-elect of Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal. ...more

April 30, 2009

Darryl C. Casanueva has been named chief judge-elect of Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal. ...more

April 29, 2009

A 27-year-old Valrico man was convicted today of federal child pornography charges for taking 34 graphic photographs of a 16-year-old relative. ...more

March 12, 2009

Two men sentenced to federal prison for cheating investors out of more than $100 million in an insurance scheme have failed to convince an appeals court that they were unfairly convicted of mail fraud. ...more

February 2, 2009

PAST AND PRESENT •In late 2005, the Department of Children & Families stopped Tampa Bay Academy from admitting new patients after finding inadequate staffing, abuse complaints and an alleged sexual assault. DCF renewed the academy's license after subsequent inspections. ...more

December 30, 2008

It has been nearly five years since the most famous "wardrobe malfunction" in television history, and the flap isn't over. On Wednesday, the Bush administration asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Federal Communications Commission's $550,000 fine against CBS for airing singer Janet Jackson's brief breast exposure during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. ...more

November 21, 2008

Tampa had the right to force Capt. Marion Lewis to resign from the Tampa Police Department when he ran for mayor in 2007. ...more

September 26, 2008