His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism - forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. ...more

October 4, 2008

His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism – forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. But in federal court today, as he faced a federal prison sentence, Paul F. Little trembled and begged a woman for mercy before he was sentenced to prison. ...more

October 3, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death sentence imposed on William Deparvine for killing a Tierra Verde couple in November 2003. ...more

September 29, 2008

A man who killed a Tampa police officer in 1981 and wounded another in an aborted drug bust was again found incompetent to be sentenced for his crimes. ...more

September 26, 2008

People who don't live in the city who bring yard debris into city limits and clandestinely leaving it to be picked up with residents' trash be warned: There is a price on your heads. ...more

September 25, 2008

Nonresidents who are in the habit of bringing their yard debris into city limits and clandestinely leaving it to be picked up with residents' trash, be warned, there is a price on your heads. ...more

September 24, 2008

Scott Kazmir was the first player to suggest with conviction the perennial last-place Rays could do something extraordinary in 2008. ...more

September 21, 2008

For the second time, two women were convicted Friday of acting as unlicensed midwives during a fatal home birth in 2004. ...more

September 7, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A grand jury returned a first-degree murder indictment Tuesday against the man accused of raping and killing 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood. ...more

September 4, 2008

When Melvin Garcia was sent to prison almost a decade ago on a racketeering conviction, he had never used a computer. Now he sends 50 e-mails a month from a federal prison in West Virginia, punctuating notes with emoticons. ...more

August 17, 2008