A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for drugging and sexually torturing nine men. ...more

September 17, 2008

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for drugging and sexually torturing nine men. ...more

September 16, 2008

The Hillsborough County mayor question won't be on the Nov. 4 ballot. On Friday, a three-judge panel upheld a circuit judge's earlier ruling to keep it off. ...more

September 13, 2008

In another defeat for pro-county mayor advocates, a three-judge panel has upheld a ruling from a lower court to keep a referendum on the issue off the ballot in November. ...more

September 12, 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

The evidence against Scott Schweickert in his drug-torture case is "overwhelming," a federal appeals judge said Tuesday. ...more

September 10, 2008

The evidence against Scott Schweickert in his drug-torture case is "overwhelming," a federal appeals judge said this morning. A three-judge panel heard arguments Monday in the case of Steven Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal prison for giving the date rape drug GHB to nine men with the intent to commit a crime of violence. Two of the men, Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz, died in December 2003. ...more

September 9, 2008

A federal appeals court panel seemed reluctant Monday to overturn Hillsborough County's ordinances governing adult businesses. ...more

September 9, 2008

A federal appeals court panel seemed reluctant today to overturn Hillsborough County's ordinances governing adult businesses. ...more

September 8, 2008

The fate of the county mayor question is in the hands of a three-judge panel. ...more

September 5, 2008