A man on probation for DUI-manslaughter is going back to prison after being found drunk behind the wheel of an idling car. ...more

March 24, 2009

Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial - his fourth - in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 21, 2009

Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial – his fourth – in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 20, 2009

A Pinellas County cleaner was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty today to killing his boss and setting him and his vehicle on fire. ...more

March 20, 2009

As texting and tweeting creep into the nation's courtrooms, local judges say the best way to avoid pitfalls is by removing the temptation. ...more

March 20, 2009

Tales of mental illness and a hard-luck childhood have become standard defense testimony in death penalty cases. ...more

March 20, 2009

A public adjuster convicted of forging his client's name on a $270,000 check was sentenced to jail time and nine years of probation on Thursday. ...more

March 20, 2009

The state's judicial oversight group today dropped charges against former state appellate judge Thomas E. Stringer. ...more

March 19, 2009

Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009