Riding a bicycle without a bell in this city no longer is a crime. The city council on Thursday voted unanimously to repeal a two-decade-old law that made riding a bicycle without an audible bell a second-degree misdemeanor. ...more

October 2, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court has stayed next week's execution of David Eugene Johnston pending DNA testing of key evidence. ...more

May 21, 2009

A Florida appeals court has reversed a lower court decision, ruling the state must give full faith and credit to adoptions granted to same-sex couples by other states. ...more

May 13, 2009

Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 18, 2009

This week the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Vicky Crawford vs. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. ...more

January 30, 2009

The man convicted of the 1966 killing of Highlands County citrus and cattle baron Charles Von Maxcy had his latest appeal denied Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

January 23, 2009

Sami Al-Arian has lost a bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider his case. ...more

October 6, 2008

The case, a federal appeals court said, "began like something out of a James Bond novel." The U.S. investigation of a British national that started with a proposal to sell a component for dirty bombs "morphed into an international drug conspiracy sting," the appeals court said. This week, the court overturned the drug conspiracy conviction of Christopher Benbow, 64, who was sentenced last year in Tampa to life in prison. ...more

August 20, 2008

As a jury listened to a 911 tape play the last minutes of George Stewart's life, his family and friends cried in the front row of the courtroom. ...more

May 21, 2008

A Tampa man whose manslaughter conviction was overturned last week is scheduled to appear in court today. ...more

December 10, 2007