Former NFL and Pasco High School star Darren Hambrick ended his latest legal saga by pleading guilty today to one count of assault and one count of battery, both misdemeanors. ...more

November 20, 2008

The prosecutor and the victim's family want a judge to reduce the sentence of a man who participated in the slaying of a Haines City police officer nearly 11 years ago. But Christopher Gamble told the judge he deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars for what he did. ...more

November 15, 2008

The prosecutor and the victim's family want a judge to reduce the sentence of a man who participated in the killing of a Haines City police officer nearly 11 years ago. ...more

November 14, 2008

TAMPA – Two high-level conspirators in a drug trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana from Texas to Florida have been sentenced to federal prison. ...more

November 7, 2008

TAMPA - Philip W. Coon sat down Wednesday in federal court, adjusted his tie, put on his glasses, took a hit of breath spray and was ready to begin serving time. ...more

November 6, 2008

Determining whether one of Hillsborough County's most notorious former landlords will ever go to prison has become a never-ending case, an exasperated federal judge said today. ...more

October 31, 2008

A man accused of being involved in a plot to kill a Sarasota couple pleaded guilty this afternoon in U.S. District Court. ...more

October 27, 2008

Scott Overbeck, a man who figured prominently this year in the investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Sabrina Aisenberg, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge. ...more

October 24, 2008

A 44-year-old Tampa man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of carrying a weapon on an airplane. Raul Gambe Mata admitted in a plea agreement that he brought a hunting knife with a six-inch blade in his carry-on bag when he attempted to board Delta flight 5634 from Tampa to Cincinnati on July 29. ...more

October 23, 2008

As she was about to report to federal prison last week, former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth checked into a Pasco hospital with anxiety and panic attacks. ...more

October 6, 2008