Hillsborough and its surrounding counties have some of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation. ...more

December 17, 2008

It has been well-documented that Linda Bollea has spent a lot of money during her divorce from Hulk Hogan. What's becoming increasingly clear as the case moves through Pinellas County court is that the lawyers are getting quite a chunk of change. ...more

December 11, 2008

A Bradenton woman can finally prove what she's known all along: she is a U.S. citizen. Somebody just found her green card, issued in 1952. ...more

December 5, 2008

The Washington Post With a backlog of applications piled up at the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President George W. Bush for special consideration on pardons and clemency. ...more

November 25, 2008

The prosecutor and the victim's family want a judge to reduce the sentence of a man who participated in the slaying of a Haines City police officer nearly 11 years ago. But Christopher Gamble told the judge he deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars for what he did. ...more

November 15, 2008

Nylon rope, black electrical tape and a condom were among items seized during a search of an SUV linked to the rape and kidnapping of two Apollo Beach restaurant workers, according to documents released today by prosecutors in Hillsborough County. The evidence will likely be used in the case against Rigoberto Moron Martinez, Vicente Reyes-Carbajal and 13-year-old Jose Walle. The trio are charged with the Apollo Beach rapes on Aug. 15 as well as a similar attack at a St. Petersburg restaurant in July. The evidence was listed among 300 pages of discovery typically shared among lawyers prior to trial. The documents also reveal that one of the Apollo Beach rape victims had duct tape in her hair when deputies found her along I-75 in Manatee County just hours after the rape. The women were held for several hours against their will and repeatedly sexually assaulted, then dumped along the highway, where they used a roadside phone to call for help. ...more

November 13, 2008

John A. "Junior" Gotti's attorneys asked that the case against him be moved to New York, arguing, in part, that Gotti has never set foot in Tampa. ...more

November 7, 2008

Jurors were offered conflicting views of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens during a four-week corruption trial: a cantankerous but credible senator who didn't know he was being lavished with free gifts, or a sour-faced, scheming one who thought he knew how to quietly get undisclosed freebies. ...more

October 21, 2008

A Jan. 20 trial date was set Thursday for Tyrone Lamont Grimes, who is accused of killing a bystander in a Brandon bar shooting. ...more

October 16, 2008

Lawyers for developer Gene Thomason turned over 600 new pages of documents to residents last week to comply with a judge's order. ...more

October 15, 2008