As texting creeps into the nation's courtrooms, local judges say the best way to avoid pitfalls is by removing the temptation. ...more

March 26, 2009

As texting and tweeting creep into the nation's courtrooms, local judges say the best way to avoid pitfalls is by removing the temptation. ...more

March 20, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama will offer details early this week about his transition staff's contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is facing federal charges of plotting to swap the appointment of Obama's Senate successor for cash or a job. ...more

December 22, 2008

The Polk County School District has placed four people on leave while it investigates activities in the school board's facilities division, the district superintendent announced today. ...more

November 18, 2008

A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced Friday morning to four years and two months in federal prison and three years' probation for his role in a scheme to steal more than $486,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

August 30, 2008

A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced this morning to four years and two months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $400,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

August 29, 2008

In 1989, Rene Garcia Myles was 22 years old and had nothing to look forward to but a life in federal prison for cocaine and weapons convictions. ...more

August 23, 2008

An inmate's contribution to an FBI probe of prison corruption has earned him his freedom. ...more

August 22, 2008

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of making false statements about more than $250,000 in renovations to his Anchorage-area home and was granted an unusually early trial date after requesting the chance to win acquittal before this fall's election. ...more

August 1, 2008

A former University of Florida football standout and a former Hillsborough County sheriff's corporal were among 13 people indicted Wednesday in the theft of funding meant to help house Tampa's most needy residents. ...more

December 13, 2007