Gun sales have risen dramatically. More than 600,000 Floridians are licensed to carry guns and they still are applying in record numbers. ...more

April 3, 2009

The last memory Bill Prior has of the USS Casco is of his doomed young shipmate. ...more

January 31, 2009

Seven men accused of using semi-submersible vessels, go-fast boats and other watercraft to smuggle drugs have been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face conspiracy charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. ...more

January 21, 2009

Timeline of the Steven Lorenzo/Scott Schweickert case ...more

October 11, 2008

The seven men were sitting at the round table in the back at the Valencia Garden restaurant. The one you would know for sure is former Congressman Sam Gibbons, but the rest are all longtime Tampa residents. The subject was money, or more precisely, how it's disappearing from everyone's savings. ...more

October 11, 2008

Police have finished working on a weeklong undercover effort to combat prostitution along U.S. 19. ...more

July 28, 2008

As Conor Jackson's two-run single bounced through Milwaukee's drawn-in infield, the Arizona Diamondbacks poured out of their dugout as if they had won a title. ...more

July 4, 2008

Over several hours last week and this, seven men and five women on a federal jury have watched some of the most extreme pornography commercially available today. ...more

June 6, 2008

In June 2006, the federal government announced with much fanfare that it had arrested seven Miami men and foiled their al-Qaida-inspired plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and wage a "ground war" against the United States. ...more

May 8, 2008

A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Saudi monarch in a case that sparked an international outcry, including rare criticism from the United States, the kingdom's top ally. ...more

December 18, 2007