A former local lawyer and Chicago police officer received a 10-year federal prison sentence Friday for sending threatening letters to his estranged wife and others while in state prison. ...more

March 7, 2009

A former local lawyer and Chicago police officer received a 10-year federal prison sentence today for sending threatening letters to his estranged wife and others while in state prison. ...more

March 6, 2009

In her first statement since she was allegedly attacked by Chris Brown, Rihanna thanked fans for their support but declined to address the accusations against her boyfriend, citing an ongoing police investigation. ...more

February 21, 2009

A group of investors sued Gov. Charlie Crist and state financial regulators today, claiming they didn't do enough to protect them from losing $44 million in a stock scam ran by boy band promoter Louis Pearlman. ...more

December 29, 2008

A Florida retail chain quickly pulled replicas of Michael Vick's jersey from its Georgia stores after getting complaints from animal rights groups. ...more

December 16, 2008

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Scott Schweickert for conspiring with Steven Lorenzo to drug and torture two men who died in Lorenzo's Seminole Heights home. The court also upheld Schweickert's conviction for drugging one of the men, Michael Wachholtz, with the intent to commit a crime of violence. ...more

October 31, 2008

His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism - forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. ...more

October 4, 2008

His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism – forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. But in federal court today, as he faced a federal prison sentence, Paul F. Little trembled and begged a woman for mercy before he was sentenced to prison. ...more

October 3, 2008

Lou Pearlman, the former boy band promoter and entrepreneur turned federal inmate, has taken another career turn: police informant. ...more

July 31, 2008

TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian are asking a federal judge in Virginia to release the former University of South Florida professor on bail while he awaits trial on charges of criminal contempt. Al-Arian has completed his federal sentence for helping a terrorist group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but is still behind bars because he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Islamic charities in Virginia. ...more

July 9, 2008