Chaos erupted Monday as a group of 86 people, including former army officers, a best-selling author and an ultra-nationalist lawyer, crowded into a prison courtroom for trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-oriented government. A panel of judges adjourned the proceeding, which later resumed with fewer suspects. ...more

October 21, 2008

A capital murder trial will be put off at least until November so doctors can determine whether the defendant is psychologically competent to face a jury. ...more

October 14, 2008

Judge orders psychiatric assessment. ...more

October 14, 2008

Physician Drew Pinsky, who led Tampa singer Jessica Sierra through her attempted rehabilitation on the television show "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," will dispense advice on sex and drug abuse tonight at the University of South Florida. ...more

October 8, 2008

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration today to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States, rebuking the government in a landmark decision that could set the stage for the release of dozens other prisoners in Cuba. ...more

October 7, 2008

Physician Drew Pinsky, who led Tampa singer Jessica Sierra through her attempted rehabilitation on the television show, "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," will dispense advice on sex and drug abuse Wednesday night at the University of South Florida. ...more

October 7, 2008

Fatty-N-Mabel's restaurant probably wouldn't exist at its current location if owner Mike Simpson had known the troubles he'd run into. ...more

October 5, 2008

Florida and Alabama have long contended that Lake Lanier was part of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint rivers system from the get-go, a critical part and as such should be treated as if jointly owned by the stakeholders in the system, in the case at the extreme southern end of the system, the seafood industry. ...more

October 5, 2008

Even after nearly 23 years on the job and thousands of cases, Jane Occhiolini remembers her first call to help a victim deal with the aftermath of a horrific event. ...more

September 26, 2008

A jury on Wednesday convicted a South Florida teenager of first-degree murder in the 2004 stabbing death of his 14-year-old friend in a middle school bathroom. ...more

September 25, 2008