Recidivism: Society's Curse? Career criminals are in the news daily; we are the victims. ...more

May 25, 2008

A motorcyclist who won a jury verdict for nearly $18 million against the city of Tampa is one step closer to collecting. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA - A motorcyclist who won a jury verdict for nearly $18 million against the city of Tampa is one step closer to collecting. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA City attorneys seeking a new trial were struck down, again, in a case of a man who was awarded $18 million after a crash involving a water department truck. ...more

January 23, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with speeches about the importance of protecting civil rights, including the restoration of voting rights for most felons who have completed their sentences. ...more

January 22, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office could install up to 30 cameras this year to monitor criminal activity in the community west of the University of South Florida. ...more

January 19, 2008

The answer to a cynic's question "Do elections matter?" may be partially found in the way judges have handled an Indiana voter photo ID law that requires people to prove their identity before they can vote. The Supreme Court will begin 2008 by hearing arguments in one of the most volatile political cases to come before it since Bush vs. Gore in the 2000 presidential election. ...more

January 2, 2008

U.S. House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send constituents what's often the government equivalent of junk mail: meeting announcements, tips on car care and job interviews, surveys on public policy and just plain bragging. ...more

December 28, 2007

Michael Vick deserves a second chance? You've got to be kidding. This is a man who has never once apologized for what he did. His only regret is that he got caught doing it. ...more

December 13, 2007

AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more

December 7, 2007