Faced with no choice but to follow the rulings of the courts, the Tampa City Council on Thursday begrudgingly issued approval for a much-debated Bayshore Boulevard condominium tower. ...more

December 21, 2007

Two months after a jury awarded a bullied boy $4 million, a judge has reviewed the case and cut the award to $600,000. ...more

December 19, 2007

Murder defendant Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, asking a jury to believe his account of John Benjamin's slaying over those of prosecution witnesses. ...more

December 14, 2007

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow about 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. ...more

December 12, 2007

Charles Grover "Chuck" Brant, 42, will die by lethal injection, a circuit judge ruled Friday morning. ...more

December 1, 2007

TAMPA - Charles Grover "Chuck" Brant, 42, will die by lethal injection, a circuit judge ruled this morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

More than 100 people will take the stand when Steven Bartlett, owner of the now defunct Coral Bay Construction, goes to trial in February. ...more

November 20, 2007

Former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne, once the county's most powerful politician, was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges. ...more

November 17, 2007

Robert Benjamin tried to hold back his tears. He didn't, however, hold back on Daniel Lee Parbel. ...more

November 17, 2007

A former bank manager was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years and seven months in federal prison for orchestrating a robbery at the Apollo Beach bank where she worked. ...more

November 14, 2007