TAMPA – Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled today. While investigating the slayings, crime-scene technicians found a bloody footprint near Freiberg's body on the floor in the master bedroom of her trailer. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA -- A former administrator at the University of South Florida is suing the vice president of Student Affairs, alleging discrimination, court papers say. Francis James Dragna, who was second-in-command in Student Affairs until October, filed a complaint in Hillsborough County Circuit Court on Friday. He is seeking reinstatement, lost pay, lost benefits and compensatory damages, according to the complaint. ...more

May 23, 2008

When deputies found Edward Covington hiding under a pile of clothes in the Lutz mobile home where his girlfriend and her two children were slaughtered, he was covered in what looked like blood, according to court documents. ...more

May 22, 2008

The community development district responsible for infrastructure maintenance in posh MiraBay neighborhoods is suing engineers and contractors involved in installing more than seven miles of vinyl sea wall along residential canals during the early days of subdivision construction. ...more

May 3, 2008

A man suing a former Catholic school regarding sexual abuse he said he suffered can seek punitive damages, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge determined. ...more

February 15, 2008

TAMPA - A man suing a former Catholic school regarding sexual abuse he said he suffered can seek punitive damages, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge determined. ...more

February 14, 2008

TAMPA - The man once known as the "Hyde Park rapist" has been released again from a state treatment center. ...more

January 17, 2008

A Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge granted former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra a travel permit for up to 45 days so she can get treatment in California, but he also scolded her and ordered her to clam up around the media. ...more

January 10, 2008

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge granted former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra a travel permit for up to 45 days so she can get treatment in California. ...more

January 10, 2008

John Dingfelder's tiny law firm just landed a big case: the Tampa Bay Lightning lawsuit. ...more

November 28, 2007