The city's nuisance abatement board was resurrected last year as a way to do away with neighborhood eyesores where drugs and prostitution are rampant. ...more

February 20, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. The 15-year-old friends hung around each other's neighborhoods, chatted about boys and borrowed each other's clothes. ...more

February 19, 2009

Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 18, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. ...more

February 18, 2009

Philip Morris should be ordered to pay more than $130 million to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could blaze a legal trail for about 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits, the family's attorney told a jury Tuesday. ...more

February 17, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the finding of a judicial referee in a disciplinary case against local lawyer John Renke II. ...more

February 13, 2009

A jury decided today that a longtime chain-smoker's death from lung cancer was caused by nicotine addiction, a potentially costly loss for tobacco giant Philip Morris and an important test case for thousands of similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 12, 2009

Judge Thomas E. Stringer Jr., accused of having financial dealings with a Las Vegas stripper and under investigation by a judicial commission, resigned Tuesday from the 2nd District Court of Appeal. ...more

February 11, 2009

Judge Thomas E. Stringer Jr., accused of having financial dealings with a Las Vegas stripper and under investigation by the Judicial Qualifications Commission, resigned Tuesday from the 2nd District Court of Appeals. ...more

February 10, 2009

A man scheduled to die Wednesday in the murder of a teenage Tampa girl 25 years ago has petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a stay of execution. ...more

February 10, 2009