1986: The University of South Florida hires Sami Al-Arian to teach computer science. ...more

September 3, 2008

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to get a growth management proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot. ...more

September 1, 2008

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to get a growth management proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot. ...more

August 31, 2008

Michael Tringali, indicted in July along with former partner Neil Mohamed Husani and two other men on federal charges that they orchestrated an $82.8 million scheme to defraud seven banks on Florida's west coast, is seeking a federal judge's permission to travel to Atlanta as needed for business. ...more

August 29, 2008

Barry Bonds asked a federal judge Monday to toss out most of the government's case against him that charges the slugger lied to a federal grand jury about his alleged steroids use. ...more

August 26, 2008

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. ...more

August 21, 2008

Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Victims of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks said Thursday that they are satisfied with the investigation's outcome that pinned the blame on an Army scientist. And now, the widow of a dead photo editor said, it's time for the government to settle her lawsuit and pay up. ...more

August 8, 2008

Supporters of a proposed Florida constitutional amendment requiring voters to approve changes in local growth management plans told a federal judge Wednesday that a host of discrepancies and problems improperly blocked the measure from the November ballot. ...more

August 7, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008