The two Apollo Beach restaurant employees who were attacked and raped Aug. 16 are working to reassemble their lives, but "the healing will be long-term and extensive," said Jacey Laundree, the sister of one of the victims. In an e-mail to The Tampa Tribune, Laundree wrote that her family is grateful that the people accused in the attack have been arrested. A MySpace page, www.myspace.com/apollobeachvictim2, is devoted to the victims. ...more

August 28, 2008

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi long have grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and the immigrants have been starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. ...more

August 28, 2008

The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. ...more

August 27, 2008

Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors. ...more

August 22, 2008

Six crew members of a narcotics smuggling vessel encountered in the Caribbean this year as part of Operation Panama Express were sentenced this month to terms of imprisonment ranging from eight to 14 years, according to the U.S. attorney's office. ...more

August 21, 2008

Werner Bloch says he led a double life. The former teacher, dormitory supervisor and tennis coach at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg had a secret habit: viewing and trading child pornography on the Internet. ...more

August 16, 2008

Former Admiral Farragut Academy teacher Werner Bloch, 41, was sentenced this morning to six years in federal prison, about 10 years less than provided in federal sentencing guidelines, after two defense experts testified he is unlikely to break the law again. ...more

August 15, 2008

TAMPA Two men posed as "rich kids" and used bogus checks to scam a Mercedes-Benz dealership and a Westshore apartment complex, Tampa police said. ...more

July 22, 2008

A man impersonating a police officer told a pregnant illegal immigrant to have sex with him or he would have her children taken away, police said. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - A man impersonating a police officer told a pregnant woman to have sex with him or he would have her children taken away, police said. ...more

July 14, 2008