One of the suspects charged in the murder of Samuel Tiller may change his plea at a December hearing. ...more

November 14, 2008

A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime. ...more

October 25, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens denied scheming to hide $250,000 in home improvements and other gifts from a wealthy businessman, taking the stand Thursday in his own defense at a corruption trial blocks from the U.S. Capitol. ...more

October 17, 2008

SEBRING A March trial date has been set for a Sebring man charged with killing Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Sottile. ...more

October 9, 2008

Dennis George Roache was found guilty Friday of killing and decapitating his ex-girlfriend's lover in 2002 and sentenced to life without parole. ...more

October 4, 2008

A federal judge scolded prosecutors Monday for sending a potentially important witness in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens back to Alaska, a move that defense lawyers asserted was intended to hide exculpatory evidence. ...more

September 30, 2008

After hearing arguments for more than an hour Wednesday, Judge Peter Estrada said he would decide by Nov. 12 whether to toss out evidence in two grow house cases. ...more

September 27, 2008

Murder trial witness Monique Pennywell told a jury today how she locked herself in the bathroom of her St. Petersburg home on Feb. 4, 2002, while her former boyfriend Dennis Roache beheaded her new lover in the master bedroom on the other side of the door. ...more

September 26, 2008

Defense attorneys say Dennis George Roache was taking orders from imagined voices when he decapitated his ex-girlfriend's lover six years ago in St. Petersburg. ...more

September 26, 2008

After hearing arguments for more than an hour today, Judge Peter Estrada said he would decide on Nov. 12 whether to toss out evidence in two grow-house cases. ...more

September 24, 2008