A 21-year-old Lakeland man was sentenced to three years in prison Friday for threatening Barack Obama the day after the presidential election. ...more

December 19, 2009

A former Odessa physician was placed on probation Wednesday for three years for illegally prescribing oxycodone. ...more

December 17, 2009

A former Odessa physician was placed on probation today for three years for illegally prescribing Oxycodone. U.S. District Judge James S. Moody imposed the sentence on John Rew, 84, who pleaded guilty to a single felony count Sept. 17. ...more

December 16, 2009

Walking into a courtroom Tuesday to face the man who posted naked videos of her online left Erin Andrews momentarily shaken, the ESPN sideline reporter admitted later. But by the time she started to tell a federal judge about the devastation and humiliation that Illinois insurance executive Michael David Barrett caused her, the veteran sideline reporter was determined and composed. ...more

December 16, 2009

Confederate forces have charged into federal territory and are hailing as a victory a U.S. District Court's decision in their struggle to get a specialty license plate pushed through the Florida Legislature. ...more

December 10, 2009

Confederate forces have charged into federal territory and are hailing as victory a recent U.S. District Court's decision in their struggle to get a specialty license plate pushed through the Florida Legislature. Not so fast, state officials say, rumors of a decisive judicial victory are premature. ...more

December 9, 2009

A Miami federal judge has imposed a 13 1/2-year sentence on the convicted ringleader of a plot to stage terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices. ...more

November 20, 2009

Former state appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer told a federal judge Friday he destroyed his career and position as community service leader by "one act of bad judgment." ...more

November 14, 2009

Participants in an oxycodone ring that was run from the car repair shop of a man dubbed "The King of Hudson" are going to federal prison. ...more

October 28, 2009

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. ...more

October 22, 2009