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

A Boca Raton businessman has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens. ...more

October 18, 2009

A federal judge has ruled that a rural Panhandle principal and his athletic director did not violate an order against praying in school. ...more

September 17, 2009

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal judge to release "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch, arguing that he was put back in jail in retaliation for criticizing the government. ...more

September 14, 2009

Congressional officials confirm that an internal government report written in 2004 reveals that CIA interrogators threatened one of their prisoners with a gun and a power drill. ...more

August 22, 2009

A federal judge has thrown out a former Tennessee student's free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing. ...more

August 12, 2009

Gov. Sonny Perdue says he is willing to risk the state's chances in court if a judge's devastating ruling against Georgia doesn't jump-start negotiations about how to share water from a massive federal reservoir. ...more

July 22, 2009

A federal judge in Miami has lifted an injunction that prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a 1-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades. ...more

June 18, 2009

A federal judge has put a hold on his order allowing detainees at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan access to courts until the government can appeal. ...more

June 1, 2009