John A. "Junior" Gotti plotted with his father and other high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family to establish a foothold in Tampa by secretly investing in local businesses as far back as 1989, federal prosecutors say in a new court filing. ...more

September 25, 2008

Federal prosecutors say former Liberian President Charles Taylor's son poured molten plastic on the skin of the regime's opponents, rubbed salt in their wounds and shocked them with electricity during a horrific three-year campaign of intimidation in Africa. ...more

September 20, 2008

A 29-year-old man convicted in the 1998 murder of a Haines City police officer was sentenced this morning to life plus 10 years in federal prison. ...more

September 18, 2008

A passenger jet traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm crashed near residential buildings as it was preparing to land early Sunday, killing all 88 people aboard, officials said. ...more

September 14, 2008

Attorneys said Wednesday they are trying to free a reputed Ku Klux Klansman after a federal appeals court overturned the three life sentences he was serving for the 1964 abduction of two black teenagers who died after being beaten and thrown in the Mississippi River. ...more

September 11, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti "is definitely not a mobster," his sister told reporters after his arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 29, 2008

Victoria Gotti told reporters this afternoon she is angry that her brother is being prosecuted in Tampa by the federal government. ...more

August 28, 2008

A business owner convicted of defrauding customers seeking male sexual enhancement products and a variety of herbal supplements was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison. ...more

August 28, 2008

A federal court ordered the former president and founder of a hedge fund to pay nearly $300 million for defrauding clients. ...more

August 20, 2008

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, quickly turned a $5,000 Florida condo investment into a profit of more than $100,000 in a questionable transaction that federal prosecutors would like to introduce as evidence at his trial next month on charges that he lied on financial disclosure forms. ...more

August 16, 2008