Prosecutors wanted a federal explosives trial to be about terrorism; for the defense, it came down this afternoon to rocket science. ...more

March 26, 2009

Testimony began today in the trial of a former youth baseball volunteer accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in May. ...more

March 25, 2009

This jury will not decide guilt or innocence, but rather life or death. ...more

March 21, 2009

A jury found Puerto Rico's former governor not guilty today on all nine counts of conspiracy, money laundering and lying to the FBI, concluding his monthlong corruption trial. ...more

March 20, 2009

A public adjuster convicted of forging his client's name on a $270,000 check was sentenced to jail time and nine years of probation on Thursday. ...more

March 20, 2009

A public adjuster convicted of forging his client's name on a $270,000 check was sentenced to jail time. ...more

March 19, 2009

A West Tampa man was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted today of killing his ex-girlfriend so she couldn't testify against him in a domestic violence hearing. ...more

March 19, 2009

What prosecutors describe as dangerous explosives were actually harmless, homemade model rockets, a defense attorney told jurors as the trial of former University of South Florida student Youssef Megahed opened Wednesday. ...more

March 19, 2009

The next to the last chapter in a tragic story was completed Friday, when Joshua Lee Altersberger pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of State Trooper Nicholas Sottile. The story won't be complete, however, until a jury decides if the death penalty awaits Altersberger. ...more

March 15, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. The two met while working at Westshore Pizza in March 2006 and became inseparable. It is hardly surprising, then, that Hernandez was one of the last people to see Veluz and Derek Pieper alive. ...more

March 14, 2009