A federal judge in Virginia today released former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian from contempt of court status, according to a statement by Al-Arian's lawyer. ...more

December 13, 2007

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former nuclear plant worker of concealing the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor. A second defendant was acquitted. ...more

October 31, 2007

A federal jury decided Friday that a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb should receive the death penalty. ...more

October 27, 2007

TAMPA - Betty Chandler Trent, the former director of the Brooksville Housing Authority, was sentenced today to two years in prison for theft of public and government money, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida reported. ...more

October 3, 2007

A federal jury on Monday found five aging men guilty in a racketeering conspiracy that involved decades of extortion, loan-sharking and murder aimed at rubbing out anyone who dared stand in the way of the ruthless Chicago mob. ...more

September 11, 2007