The Coast Guard will begin enforcement Tuesday of a federal security identification badge and background program at Tampa, St. Petersburg and Manatee seaports to allow workers unescorted access to 68 port facilities. ...more

January 12, 2009

A suicide bomber attacked police in northwest Pakistan as they rushed to treat civilians wounded by an earlier explosion, killing seven people and injuring at least 25 others, a police official said. ...more

January 5, 2009

A woman wearing an explosive belt packed with ball bearings blew herself up in Baghdad near one of Iraq's most sacred Shiite shrines, killing as many as 40 other people and wounding scores more in a devastating attack that shattered festive celebrations ahead of one of Shiite Islam's holiest days. ...more

January 5, 2009

A former University of South Florida student was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison for providing aid to terrorists by making an Internet video on how to use a toy to start a bomb by remote control ...more

December 18, 2008

Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA – Defense attorneys for a 27-year-old Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists are asking a judge to sentence him to eight years in prison, not the 15-year-term being requested by prosecutors. ...more

December 17, 2008

What a filthy, disgusting business is war; always in the final analysis, the product of competing ideologies, its result is the slaughter of the innocents, the butchery of its young men, very young men, who rarely fully grasp an understanding of the dogmas for whom their lives are forfeit. ...more

December 2, 2008

A federal judge has denied a motion by lawyers for Youssef Megahed, who asked him to prevent prosecutors from using a "Hollywood-esque" video in his upcoming trial on charges he illegally transported explosives. ...more

November 7, 2008

TAMPA - The sentencing of a former University of South Florida student who pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists has been moved from Friday to a later date, according to a notice filed today in federal court. ...more

November 6, 2008

Ahmed Mohamed came to the United States to gather "information about explosives and acquiring components in this country to construct explosives to cause harm within this country," a federal prosecutor asserts in a newly filed court document. Mohamed, an Egyptian student in the United States to attend the University of South Florida, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorists by making and posting on the Web site You Tube a video in which he shows how to use a remote-controlled device to detonate a bomb. ...more

November 5, 2008