As Randy Nowak was meeting with an undercover agent he thought was a hit man, the Internal Revenue Service officer Nowak wanted dead went into hiding, according to evidence presented this morning in Nowak's trial. ...more

December 16, 2008

David Bishop, 43, entered a guilty plea today on three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior involving teenage girls. ...more

December 15, 2008

Forensic scientist Henry Lee, who once solved a murder case using 7 ounces of body parts, says the tiniest evidence can make or break a case. ...more

December 12, 2008

A lawsuit that could have thrown the controversial county mayor issue back into the courtroom was rejected Thursday by Hillsborough County commissioners. ...more

December 11, 2008

William Carro and Willie Hall were wearing matching buttons while sitting in a Highlands County courtroom Wednesday afternoon. ...more

December 11, 2008

The vote approving Amendment 2 was a devastating but temporary setback for the cause of equal treatment for all. ...more

November 30, 2008

The man prosecutors have called a suspect in the disappearance and slaying of Jennifer Denise Johnson was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for violating his probation on an unrelated drug charge. ...more

November 24, 2008

Judge Michael Hunter has granted Leon Davis' motion to dismiss his standby counsel, Stephen Fisher, in a pair of cases involving five slayings. ...more

November 20, 2008

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges. ...more

November 20, 2008

Former Newsome High School girls soccer coach Ronald Eugene Lewis was placed on a year of house arrest and nine years of probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 17-year-old student. ...more

November 13, 2008