The Complete Angler won a partial victory Friday when a federal magistrate recommended that the city of Clearwater be ordered not to punish the bait and tackle shop for its mural of sea life. ...more

March 14, 2009

The Complete Angler won a partial victory today when a federal magistrate recommended that the city of Clearwater be ordered not to punish the bait and tackle shop for its mural of sea life. ...more

March 13, 2009

A Winter Haven man was spared the death penalty Thursday for his role in the 2006 slaying of a Polk County drug dealer. ...more

March 6, 2009

A Winter Haven man was spared the death penalty today for his role in the 2006 slaying of a Polk County drug dealer. ...more

March 5, 2009

The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to a Massachusetts mobster who was accidentally shot by an FBI agent in Tampa in 2004. ...more

February 27, 2009

A federal judge has granted a new trial for a 78-year-old mental health therapist who faced up to life in prison on a charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

February 6, 2009

A 78-year-old mental health therapist who faces up to life in prison is asking for a new trial on a federal charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

January 9, 2009

A judge today barred attorneys for Charles Friedlander from presenting expert testimony that Friedlander is not a pedophile or a sexual sadist. ...more

November 17, 2008

A man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for threatening to kill the president and several federal judges and FBI agents was ordered released from custody today after a federal judge found he no longer poses a danger. ...more

October 10, 2008

A Moroccan native here on a student visa will serve three months in prison for shooting a rifle with friends at a local gun range. ...more

July 15, 2008