A Miami federal judge has imposed a 13 1/2-year sentence on the convicted ringleader of a plot to stage terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices. ...more

November 20, 2009

Former state appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer told a federal judge Friday he destroyed his career and position as community service leader by "one act of bad judgment." ...more

November 14, 2009

Participants in an oxycodone ring that was run from the car repair shop of a man dubbed "The King of Hudson" are going to federal prison. ...more

October 28, 2009

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. ...more

October 22, 2009

The father of a suburban Philadelphia woman who faked her own abduction and fled with her daughter to Disney World has been ordered to stand trial in connection with a scuffle with TV cameramen. ...more

September 26, 2009

Former state Judge Thomas Stringer may dread the next Friday the 13th. ...more

September 11, 2009

A federal judge has thrown out a former Tennessee student's free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing. ...more

August 12, 2009

A 35-year-old Plant City man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine. ...more

June 26, 2009

A federal judge in Miami has lifted an injunction that prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a 1-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades. ...more

June 18, 2009

A former Department of Children & Families employee was sentenced today to two years of probation for lying to investigators to help his friend, former DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman. ...more

June 2, 2009