Details are few and far between concerning the murder last month of Lawrence Paul Higgins, a former Washington, D.C., lawyer known for his love of horses.
A Miami jury has convicted a retired FBI agent accused of cooperating with Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and providing information to gangsters that led to a South Florida murder in…
Overruling an appeals court decision that a 2003 Florida law limiting the amount of attorney fees in worker’s compensation cases is constitutional, the state supreme court said the appellate court…
A convicted sexual predator who previously worked as a deputy for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office may have caused a fatal accident in Florida for which a civilian has been…
In a pair of rulings Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that newspapers can’t be sued for putting people in a “false light” with their reporting.
Two Miami-area judges involved in a dispute over office equipment earlier this month were asked by the Dade County chief judge to leave the courthouse and have no further contact.
Law firms Foley & Lardner and GrayRobinson announced plans Tuesday to call off lavish holiday parties in order to support some of their favorite charities, theOrlando…
Long the center of allegations that he was involved in the torture and mistreatment of criminal suspects, former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge is facing charges.
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a $3.1 million award against the U.S. government to the family of a Quincy, Mass., fisherman killed in 1984 by leaders of the Winter…
Following months of investigation in a much-publicized case of a missing Florida toddler, a grand jury has indicted her mother in a first-degree murder case.
About 25 would-be buyers in a failed Florida condominium development are suing the law firm that held their deposit money, arguing it didn’t do enough to safeguard $2.5 million of…
As a struggling 66-year-old Florida homeowner went off to begin serving an open-ended contempt sentence for having a brown lawn last week, the president of his condominium association said Joseph…
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