A federal judge told lawyers this afternoon to get ready to take the case of Youseff Megahed to trial. ...more

January 26, 2009

A circuit court judge has dismissed an advocacy group's lawsuit against the state over cuts to services for the developmentally disabled. ...more

January 24, 2009

The high school civics teacher who wanted to stop the controversial pat-downs of fans at Raymond James Stadium has reached the end of his legal road. ...more

January 22, 2009

The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan who challenged the team's pat-down searches. ...more

January 21, 2009

A British national who started out trying to sell a radioactive isotope from Russia pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge. ...more

January 20, 2009

A Tampa political consultant continued his challenge today to the way the national Democratic Party penalized Florida for holding its primary earlier than the party wanted. ...more

January 8, 2009

A Christian fraternity asked federal judges Wednesday to recognize the group as part of student life at the University of Florida, despite a school rule that bars Gator groups from discriminating based on religion. ...more

December 11, 2008

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Scott Schweickert for conspiring with Steven Lorenzo to drug and torture two men who died in Lorenzo's Seminole Heights home. The court also upheld Schweickert's conviction for drugging one of the men, Michael Wachholtz, with the intent to commit a crime of violence. ...more

October 31, 2008

A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime. ...more

October 25, 2008

A former administrative law judge who unsuccessfully sued a dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants tried to convince an appeals panel Wednesday that he deserves the money because he is a fraud victim. ...more

October 23, 2008