The attorney for the family of one of two people who recently committed suicide at Tampa General Hospital has called on the State Attorney's Office to launch a criminal probe into the matter. ...more

August 26, 2008

An attorney for the estate of a woman who hanged herself at Tampa General Hospital is urging the state attorney's office to pursue manslaughter charges in the case. ...more

August 25, 2008

Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone younger than 19. ...more

August 23, 2008

The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs. ...more

August 15, 2008

The plan called for trading a video game system and accessories for a pair of shoes and $100. When one of the traders tried to back out of the deal, though, violence erupted and now two men face criminal charges, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

August 1, 2008

When federal immigration agents raided the kosher meatpacking plant here in May and rounded up 389 illegal immigrants, they found more than 20 underage workers, some as young as 13. ...more

July 27, 2008

For $22,500, once again, God can walk among the people of Tampa. After an agreement between prosecutors and a defense attorney, Judge Walter Heinrich Jr. today reduced the bail of 39-year-old God Lucky Howard from $86,500 to $22,500. ...more

June 30, 2008

AVON PARK — A tenant who accused his landlord of beating him to collect rent found himself in jail after allegations surfaced that he was trying to extort money from the landlord in exchange for dropping charges, according to the sheriff's office. Roger Ray Vickery, 38, of 3603 Monza St., Sebring, was charged Friday with compounding a felony crime, punishable by death or life imprisonment, and fraud-swindle to gain money or property less than $20,000. In late May, Vickery accused his landlord, Thomas Gordon Ramsey, 46, and two other men of beating him and robbing him to collect rent. ...more

June 23, 2008

The criminal charges are simple, the case complex, involving a well-known local veterinarian, a show horse he was to euthanize and a $10,000 life insurance payoff for the animal a state investigator says is probably still alive - somewhere. ...more

June 21, 2008

Raymond A. Neumann died Saturday afternoon at Tampa General Hospital, three days after crawling from the cab of his blazing fuel tanker after it plunged from a highway bridge and exploded. ...more

June 8, 2008