Tag: trials

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday in a tweet that he never asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating his ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, issuing a fresh denial amid a shifting timeline on when he may have known that Flynn had lied to the FBI.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 24-year-old college graduate arrested in a string of deadly shootings that terrorized a Florida neighborhood was ordered held without bond Thursday on four counts of premeditated first-degree murder.

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man will be hospitalized in federal custody for psychiatric treatment and likely serve 25 years in prison for plotting to bomb a synagogue and Jewish school center during Passover last year, a judge ruled Tuesday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida nursing home under investigation for the deaths of 13 patients after Hurricane Irma says in a letter to Congress that staff members did everything possible but couldn’t overcome a lack of power to the central air conditioner.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Joshua Phillips was a teenager when he was a convicted and sentenced to life in prison for beating and stabbing to death an 8-year-old girl who lived in his Florida neighborhood.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor who recently reversed a blanket policy against executions has missed the filing deadline to pursue the death penalty in a murder case.

Key dates in the bribery investigation and trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat:

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a First Amendment case brought by a Florida man who previously won a landmark ruling from the justices on whether his floating home was a house, not a boat subject to easier government seizure under laws that govern ships and boats.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A widow’s fight to keep her husband’s medical records private in a malpractice lawsuit led the Florida Supreme Court to rule Thursday that the state constitution’s right to privacy extends beyond death in any circumstance.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The president of the Florida Senate is ordering an investigation after a report said that a powerful Republican harassed and groped women.