A 12-year-old accused of fatally beating his baby cousin after she interrupted a cartoon pleaded no contest Wednesday and was sentenced to a juvenile treatment center. ...more

July 10, 2008

TAMPA - A former bus driver for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit accused of making sexual advances toward a passenger and not letting her off the bus will not be charged. ...more

June 25, 2008

Regarding "The Next Attack: Coming Soon" (Other Views, June 19): Cal Thomas decries our Supreme Court's decision granting foreign terrorist detainees the right to access U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention, "a right that should be reserved only for American citizens." ...more

June 22, 2008

TAMPA – Two men who changed their minds about testifying against their co-defendants were sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for their role in a 2006 Spring Hill marijuana growing operation. ...more

June 20, 2008

Growing tired of watching one teacher-student sex scandal after another hit the headlines, the mother of one minor involved in a case spoke publicly for the first time Monday. ...more

June 17, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - Shannon Stephen is accused of running over two people who were walking back from the Chasco Fiesta two years ago while driving drunk. His trial started today. ...more

June 16, 2008

Shannon Stephen goes on trial today, accused of running down two people walking back from the Chasco Fiesta two years ago. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA – A year after Thomas Guth was released from federal prison in 2003, his lawyer told a judge in Chicago that he wanted to start a new life away from the city in Pueblo, Colo. The judge agreed to release Guth early from probation so he could move away with his then-15-year-old son. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - A former University of South Florida student charged with transporting explosives is expected to be released today under a judge's order. ...more

May 5, 2008

The explosives trial of a former University of South Florida student likely will be put on hold after prosecutors appealed a judge's evidence ruling Friday. ...more

May 3, 2008