Grammy-nominated Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will fight a drug charge against him in Tampa instead of Miami. Banton waived his bail hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court. His case is being prosecuted in Tampa, where he will be transferred. ...more

December 16, 2009

A former adoption agency director who overcharged adoptive parents must repay about $178,000 to her victims as part of a plea bargain accepted Monday. ...more

October 27, 2009

Last Friday, Pasco Sheriff Bob White dropped a surprise on the Pasco County Public Safety Coordinating Council, which brings together officials of county government, the court system, law enforcement, probation and mental health to work out issues related to the county's two jails. White said he is disbanding the Sheriff's Office unit that oversees criminal defendants whom judges have released from jail on their own recognizance. With the Pasco public sector strapped for cash, the Sheriff's Office wants to shift the money it has been spending on supervised ROR to other areas of its operations. The sheriff, however, should approach spending this savings with caution. ...more

March 25, 2009

Sheriff Bob White announced today he will phase out a unit that tracks court defendants before trials and reassign the unit's four deputies to patrol duty. ...more

March 20, 2009

A Pinellas County cleaner was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty today to killing his boss and setting him and his vehicle on fire. ...more

March 20, 2009

Freddie Vasquez II was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after pleading guilty to killing two men during what prosecutors claim was a gang-related dispute in 2006. ...more

February 16, 2009

A Lakeland man was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for his role in the March 2006 robbery of a Dover brothel in which a man was killed. ...more

January 12, 2009

An attorney sleeping in court may be "inexcusable," according to a federal appeals court, but it's no excuse for the client. ...more

January 1, 2009

A lawyer sleeping in court may be "inexcusable," according to a federal appeals court, but it's no excuse for the client. ...more

December 31, 2008

Phillup Partin, the drifter who killed 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook in 2002, will die for his crime. ...more

December 3, 2008