The countdown to Decision 2008 has reached its attention-focusing phase, which can mean only one thing: The usual opportunists are back, predicting another Florida Election Day meltdown. ...more

September 28, 2008

The Tampa Sports Authority plans to begin conducting pat-down searches again at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Oct. 12 home game against the Carolina Panthers. ...more

September 27, 2008

Hillsborough County soon will begin enforcing its strict ordinances governing adult businesses now that a federal appeals court has ruled the restrictions are constitutional. ...more

September 19, 2008

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for drugging and sexually torturing nine men. ...more

September 17, 2008

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for drugging and sexually torturing nine men. ...more

September 16, 2008

Attorneys said Wednesday they are trying to free a reputed Ku Klux Klansman after a federal appeals court overturned the three life sentences he was serving for the 1964 abduction of two black teenagers who died after being beaten and thrown in the Mississippi River. ...more

September 11, 2008

A federal appeals court panel seemed reluctant Monday to overturn Hillsborough County's ordinances governing adult businesses. ...more

September 9, 2008

A federal appeals court panel seemed reluctant today to overturn Hillsborough County's ordinances governing adult businesses. ...more

September 8, 2008

The case, a federal appeals court said, "began like something out of a James Bond novel." ...more

August 21, 2008

The case, a federal appeals court said, "began like something out of a James Bond novel." The U.S. investigation of a British national that started with a proposal to sell a component for dirty bombs "morphed into an international drug conspiracy sting," the appeals court said. This week, the court overturned the drug conspiracy conviction of Christopher Benbow, 64, who was sentenced last year in Tampa to life in prison. ...more

August 20, 2008