A judge has sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns. ...more

November 7, 2009

The man charged with shooting Samuel Tiller during a November 2007 burglary of the victim's home pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder. ...more

January 24, 2009

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge Monday they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal, setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible executions. ...more

December 9, 2008

In August, Timothy Davis and Jason Lanier sold 1,761 pounds of copper wire to a metal recycler for $4,560.99. ...more

December 4, 2008

Alex Shevgert was convicted today of all counts by a jury that found him responsible for orchestrating attacks on his parents-in-law because they cut him off financially. ...more

November 14, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - Prosecutors have dropped the most serious charges against parents accused of hosting a house party for underage teenagers that ended with the death of an 18-year-old. ...more

October 31, 2008

The leader of a ring that smuggled hundreds of guns from Florida and sold them to street gangs in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty this morning to federal firearms crimes. ...more

September 10, 2008

A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced Friday morning to four years and two months in federal prison and three years' probation for his role in a scheme to steal more than $486,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

August 30, 2008

A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced this morning to four years and two months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $400,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

August 29, 2008

An informant who said he got information about the disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg might see his prison sentence reduced by about half. ...more

August 5, 2008