Twenty years after an off-duty San Francisco police officer was found shot to death in his car, investigators have connected the case to a Florida prison inmate with Tampa Bay ties. ...more

June 4, 2008

AVON PARK — Congressman Putnam's office has called Lucio Anaya Sr. and to say his passport will arrive soon. "He called me," said Patricia Austin, who wrote Putnam on Anaya's behalf. "He said they have approved his passport. "That's wonderful," said Austin. "Hopefully, he'll get it within two weeks." Anaya, an Avon Park vegetable stand operator who lives in Frostproof, has applied twice for a passport, but was sent a letter with requests for more documents. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA – Two men pleaded guilty this morning to charges they were middlemen in a bribery scheme through which unqualified people obtained commercial driver's licenses. ...more

April 23, 2008

"Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess," by Jerramy Fine (Gotham Books, $25) ...more

February 24, 2008

Why isn't the paperwork for deportation being prepared so this "Cuban citizen" can be immediately deported, either back to Cuba or to any other country that will take him when his sentence is completed? I don't understand how a person can be sentenced up to life in prison for possessing or selling small amounts crack or powder cocaine, but this guy gets off with a meager three years in prison for the manufacture and sale of large amounts of marijuana. Maybe, the judge's hands are tied by the sentencing guidelines, and if so, they need to be changed by the legislature. ...more

January 14, 2008

An undocumented worker applying for a driver's license raised a clerk's suspicion. ...more

December 27, 2007

Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Tuesday. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Teams assigned to eliminate the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives have arrested nearly twice as many people this fiscal year as the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said today. ...more

December 4, 2007

Two British parliament members met officials in Sudan on Saturday to try to secure the release of a British teacher imprisoned for allowing students to name a teddy bear Muhammad and later said the Khartoum government wants to resolve the case. ...more

December 2, 2007

A Sudanese court on Thursday convicted a British teacher of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced her to 15 days in prison, avoiding a heavier punishment of 40 lashes. The teacher wept in court, insisting she never meant to offend. ...more

November 30, 2007