Terrorist trials Isn't it fitting that as soon as our president jets off to Asia, Attorney General Eric Holder informs us that we will be bringing the 9-11 mastermind and four of his fellow terrorists to our soil for a civil trial? They will be given the right afforded to American citizens to a fair trial by their peers. Are there any of their peers here to sit on their jury? ...more

November 17, 2009

The number of hate crimes in Florida dropped slightly in 2008. ...more

October 22, 2009

POLITICAL RESUME Gov. Charlie Crist has a history of moving from one elected position to another: ...more

May 13, 2009

Florida's attorney general is suing a company that makes a dog toy that looks like Michael Vick and is named after the suspended NFL star. ...more

April 9, 2009

As more Floridians face losing their homes to foreclosure, more crooks emerge to take advantage of them, and the state's attorney general says the problem has become a crisis. ...more

March 27, 2009

More than 45 years ago, as attorney general of Minnesota, I joined with the attorneys general of 21 states in asking the Supreme Court to ensure that counsel would be appointed for all people facing criminal charges who could not afford it. The court answered our plea. Yet today, its historic decision in Gideon v. Wainwright is at risk. ...more

March 14, 2009

The Obama administration on Friday dropped the term "enemy combatant" as a label for people held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them. ...more

March 14, 2009

Florida's Attorney General is warning residents about companies offering to file unemployment compensation claims for a fee - because online filing is free and secure. ...more

March 6, 2009

Hillsborough County is jumping on the Twitter trend, sending out county news via the social media service under the name @HCNews. So far, there's a small following -- 25 people -- but more could be flowing soon, given tweets from the county such as this one: ...more

February 25, 2009

If a closed-door meeting today is any indication, the police department and the city's convenience store owners are at loggerheads over which safety measures the stores should install to ward off robbers. ...more

February 3, 2009