reshape the state's highest court by appointing a new majority on the seven-member panel. ...more

July 31, 2008

Fifty judges and lawyers, including six from the Tampa Bay area, have applied to replace two of the most conservative members on the Florida Supreme Court as Friday's application deadline approached. The list also includes some key players in the 2000 presidential election recount. ...more

July 26, 2008

For all the lengths Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have gone to in keeping their hunt for a vice president under wraps, their deliberations are in some ways being conducted in plain sight. ...more

July 20, 2008

Eighteen months after Florida botched its last execution, its new lethal injection procedures resulted in what appeared to be a smooth and peaceful death Tuesday for child killer Mark Dean Schwab. ...more

July 5, 2008

For most of the past 20 years, Carolyn Roberts has helped oversee Florida's university system. She has fought plenty of battles, but always on the side of what she thought was best for Florida's students. ...more

July 4, 2008

Florida's revised method of executing condemned inmates was put to its first test Tuesday night in Starke, and it appeared to work perfectly in ending the life of a vicious child killer. ...more

July 3, 2008

Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution. ...more

June 30, 2008

STARKE - Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution. ...more

June 29, 2008

TRINITY - While a long-delayed fire station is under construction in Trinity, county officials pretty much have closed the book on building a Trinity library branch anytime soon. A library project in the booming area of Trinity looked like it might take off in 2005 with a state grant for more than $430,000. At one time there was talk of co-locating a Trinity fire station with a library and passive park, Dan Johnson, Pasco's assistant county administrator for public services, recalled. ...more

June 25, 2008

The battle in Florida over school vouchers returned to the courts on Friday when teacher, civil rights and other groups sued the state to keep two voucher-related proposals off November's ballot. ...more

June 14, 2008