After being violently attacked two times, a fearful Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk asked their son-in-law, Alex Shevgert, if they could move into the home Shevgert shared with their daughter. The couple didn't realize that Shevgert had hired the attackers who had beaten the couple with a hammer, causing life-threatening injuries, court documents say. ...more

October 31, 2008

A construction worker has been extradited from New Jersey to face charges he had sex with a teenage girl who had gone to his apartment in Oldsmar so he could photograph her in a bikini for her MySpace page, according to court documents unsealed today. ...more

October 27, 2008

Keith Lane rambled on for 10 minutes, trying to convince Circuit Judge Thane Covert that he was worthy of mercy. ...more

October 25, 2008

A disbarred Clearwater lawyer was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for stealing millions in a real estate scheme, the U.S. attorney's office said. ...more

October 21, 2008

Former police Capt. Marion Lewis lost his appeal last month to get his job back, but he hasn't given up the fight. ...more

October 17, 2008

Former police Capt. Marion Lewis lost his appeal last month to get his job back, but he hasn't given up the fight. Lewis, who was forced to quit when he ran against Mayor Pam Iorio last year, filed court documents this week seeking a hearing of the case before Florida Supreme Court. ...more

October 16, 2008

A local man charged with involvement in the Gambino organized crime family gave his consent for FBI agents to remove a gun from his house, federal prosecutors say in court documents filed today. ...more

October 14, 2008

A former track coach at St. Petersburg High School was arrested Monday, accused of having a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student, St. Petersburg police said. Lee Edward Fictum, 32, of Pinellas Park, was charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, jail records say. He was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $250,000 bail. Fictum developed a personal relationship with the girl that turned sexual in the summer of 2007, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said. The girl's father became aware of the relationship and then made a report to St. Petersburg police, Proffitt said. ...more

October 7, 2008

A Tampa man has been told he will spend the next seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to cocaine conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. sentenced Oscar Fernandez, 30, to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine with his co-defendant Benjamin Torres. ...more

September 19, 2008

A months-long scrap between Pasco County officials and the owner of a mobile home park for low-income residents ended Monday night. ...more

September 17, 2008