TAMPA - After pleading guilty today to attempted sexual battery on a child younger than 12, a 30-year-old man will serve three years in prison then will be deported to his native Mexico. Should Ebaristo Medina ever return to the United States, he could face up to 60 years in prison, prosecutors said. ...more

May 12, 2008

Lionel Tate, whose killing of a 6-year-old girl once made him the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life in prison, accepted a plea deal Tuesday in a pizza deliveryman robbery that occurred while he was on probation. ...more

February 20, 2008

A Pinellas County circuit judge Tuesday ordered a pre-sentence investigation for Nick Bollea, who is accused of seriously injuring a friend in a single-car wreck Aug. 26. ...more

February 19, 2008

CLEARWATER -- A Pinellas County circuit judge this morning ordered a pre-sentence investigation for Nick Bollea, who is accused of seriously injuring a friend in a single-car wreck on Aug. 26. ...more

February 19, 2008

Attorneys are negotiating a possible plea deal in the case of one of two former University of South Florida students charged with transporting explosives. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA - Attorneys are negotiating a possible plea deal in the case of one of two former University of South Florida students charged with transporting explosives. ...more

February 15, 2008

It's time to move Steve Mariucci from "maybe" to "definite" on the list of Washington Redskins coaching candidates. ...more

February 1, 2008

The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt. ...more

February 1, 2008

The man accused of scheming to plunder bodies for parts used in thousands of tissue transplants is poised to plead guilty, and authorities and victims' relatives say his testimony could roil the billion-dollar industry. ...more

January 20, 2008

Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress soon will be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving, her attorney, Blair Berk, told a judge Thursday. ...more

January 19, 2008