at least until the appeal - Amendment 5 off the ballot. In his ruling, Cooper held the proposed change to the state constitution "fails to fairly inform the voter, in clear and unambiguous language of the chief purposes of the amendment." ...more

August 20, 2008

A circuit court judge ordered a tax-swap proposal off the fall presidential election ballot on Thursday in an opinion that is certain to be appealed. ...more

August 15, 2008

Two proposed state constitutional amendments that could expand school vouchers will stay on the Nov. 4 ballot, a judge ruled Monday. ...more

August 5, 2008

President Bush's top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches. ...more

August 1, 2008

Already chastened and now contrite, disgraced former circuit judge John Kenneth Renke III will have to stop practicing law for 30 days as further punishment for misleading voters and accepting illegal campaign money. ...more

February 15, 2008

It's official - Rose Rocco is a Hernando County commissioner. Fourteen months after she "won" the election, an appellate court judge Tuesday affirmed a local circuit judge's decision that Rocco has a legal right to the District 2 seat. ...more

January 30, 2008

Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he wasn't. ...more

January 4, 2008

The Civil War re-enactors and politicians past and present who gathered Monday were just a taste of what residents can expect from the new Tampa Bay History Center. ...more

December 4, 2007

TAMPA - A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park to a Mulberry-based land development firm. After hearings Thursday, Judge John Laney III of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Georgia approved the sale of the Winter Haven park to Land South Holdings LLC for $16.8 million. ...more

September 28, 2007

Elijah Dukes pleaded no contest Thursday to a marijuana possession charge. ...more

September 28, 2007