Calling the Tampa prosecution of John A. "Junior" Gotti a desperate effort to overcome the federal government's losing streak against him, defense lawyers this morning filed a motion seeking to move the case to New York. ...more

September 12, 2008

BARTOW - Leon Davis won the right to act as his own attorney when he stands trial in the slayings of five people during two attacks in December. ...more

September 4, 2008

A man with a 33-year-long criminal record who talked in secretly recorded conversations about two slayings and other crimes may not be mentally competent to stand trial, his defense attorney says in a court filing. ...more

September 3, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti "is definitely not a mobster," his sister told reporters after his arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 29, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti has arrived in Florida and will appear in federal court in Tampa today. ...more

August 28, 2008

Two Massachusetts businesses are battling over the macabre legacy of a former Sunday school teacher who was accused in the hatchet deaths of her wealthy father and stepmother more than 110 years ago. ...more

August 23, 2008

In a small courtroom here, Ever Veloza, over the past year, has confessed to nearly 1,000 slayings in Colombia's conflict and recounted how the death squads he helped run were supported by army officers and prominent politicians. ...more

August 20, 2008

After two Wesley Chapel teens were gunned down on a dirt road two years ago in Trilby, one of the first and most publicized names to surface as a person of interest to the sheriff's office was Jeremy Hanson Henry. ...more

July 26, 2008

After two Wesley Chapel teens were gunned down on a dirt road two years ago in Trilby, one of the first and most publicized names to surface as a person of interest by the sheriff's office was Jeremy Hanson Henry. But two weeks later, Henry, 20, turned up dead and since then the investigation into the deaths of Derek James Pieper and Raymond Alphonse Veluz mostly had been mum. Until now. On Friday Pasco Detective Lisa Schoneman said she has tirelessly worked this case since the slayings, and it's been almost that long since detectives have ruled out Henry as the killer. On Aug. 10, 2006, Henry called Detective Stephen Foshay and told him he didn't have anything to do with the killings of Pieper, 17, and Velez, 18, on July 28, 2006. He then pointed to Tyree Jenkins and Luc Pierre-Charles as the triggermen, Schoneman said. ...more

July 25, 2008

A grisly news story concerning the shooting of two teenage girls in Oklahoma recently left me wondering what might have prevented the tragedy. Would alertness to potential dangers in their immediate surroundings have saved them? Perhaps, but what is lost when children are conditioned to see potential harm everywhere? What happens when a society stops trusting? ...more

July 11, 2008