Justice is fleeting in shamed man's eyes
A Haitian humiliated by being searched at an Eckerd drugstore wins $110,000 from a jury, only to have the judge lower the award to $100.

He didn't do it
Frank Lee Smith was the kind of guy you'd suspect of murder. He lived near the scene and had killed before. All it took to put him on Florida's death row was a malleable witness, a hard charging cop and an ambitious prosecutor. The only problem ...

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Woman avoids jail after trying to force abortion

Appeals court denies request for list of exporters
A federal appeals court has denied the St. Petersburg Times' efforts to learn the names of U.S. companies that are being allowed to do business with Cuba despite the United States' economic embargo against the Communist-led island.