Charles Stephen Dixon made racial remarks against a booking sergeant at Orient Road Jail and spat in the faces of two detention deputies, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 8, 2009

A Moroccan native here on a student visa will serve three months in prison for shooting a rifle with friends at a local gun range. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - A Moroccan native here on a student visa will serve three months in prison for shooting a rifle with friends at a local gun range. ...more

July 14, 2008

Jon Whispel wears his regrets on his arms, tattooed in a skull and two masks. The grinning skull sits high enough on his bicep to hide beneath the short sleeves of his blue prison shirt. He bought the tattoo in Ybor City a decade ago today with money from a woman he had helped kill hours earlier. ...more

June 27, 2008

Jon Whispel wears his regrets on his arms, tattooed in a skull and two masks. ...more

June 26, 2008

Former newspaper mogul Conrad Black was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison, far less than prosecutors sought, for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger media empire out of $6 million. ...more

December 11, 2007

Hard to believe it has been 56 years since the recipe for Mrs. Harvey's White Fruitcake appeared in The Tampa Tribune ...more

November 27, 2007

Former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth has agreed to plead guilty to signing a false tax return. ...more

November 3, 2007

Former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth has agreed to plead guilty to signing a false tax return. Toth's husband, Alex, has been declared incompetent to stand trial and is being evaluated in a federal medical correctional facility in North Carolina. ...more

November 2, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - A jail inmate awaiting trial on suspicion of first-degree murder and aggravated battery now has another charge to fight: introducing contraband into a correctional facility. ...more

October 19, 2007