In the nonprofit legal center Steven Schwartz runs from a converted furniture store in Northampton, Mass., the e-mail was very good news: By week's end, a check for $243,000 would be on its way. ...more

December 21, 2008

A Bahamian national convicted of drug smuggling was sentenced today in a Tampa federal courtroom to 14 years in prison, according to the U.S. attorney's office said. ...more

August 26, 2008

TAMPA - A Bahamian national was sentenced in a Tampa federal courtroom today to concurrent sentences of 169 months in prison on two indictments involving cocaine trafficking, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. ...more

August 14, 2008

This morning in a federal courtroom, Tampa political consultant and Democratic voter Victor DiMaio will make a second stab at forcing the seating of Florida's Democratic delegates to the party's national convention. ...more

May 28, 2008

Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons star who has traded his No. 7 jersey for a black-and-white-striped jail uniform, stood expressionless in a federal courtroom on Monday and apologized to the court and his family for his involvement in a dogfighting ring. But for the judge about to decide Vick's fate, those words were not enough. ...more

December 11, 2007

Brandon Erwin and Andrew Culver traveled together in the glitzy drug world, and both eventually wanted out. ...more

October 18, 2007

TAMPA Brandon Erwin and Andrew Culver traveled together in the glitzy drug world, and both eventually wanted out. ...more

October 17, 2007

A laptop computer deputies found when they pulled over two University of South Florida students in South Carolina contained a video made by one of the men showing how to use a toy to detonate a bomb remotely, a federal prosecutor said Friday. ...more

September 15, 2007