CLEARWATER - An attorney for the family of Javon Dawson says she has presented several witnesses to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office, and that all of them say the teenager was unarmed before and when he was fatally shot by a St. Petersburg police officer. ...more

July 1, 2008

First the bad news: The moribund housing industry has put a major crimp in Pasco County's road-building plans. ...more

June 29, 2008

TAMPA - Former Hillsborough State Attorney Bill James, whose career as a crusader against corruption included the prosecution in federal court of three Hillsborough County commissioners, has died. He was 75. ...more

June 18, 2008

This civil court war is over. Joan Kennedy Biddle, who sued the city this year to collect $22 million for a Civil War-era debt owed to her great-grandfather plus 147 years' worth of interest, has given up the fight. ...more

May 31, 2008

Ric Ridgway, chief assistant state attorney, said he should know by the end of the week if there is enough evidence to begin an inquiry into whether a Spring Hill Fire Rescue District commissioner violated the Florida Government-in-the-Sunshine Law. ...more

February 12, 2008

Attorney General's office issues opinion. ...more

February 11, 2008

Two days before his retirement, Robert Sumner wasn't having many regrets about his latest stint as county attorney, but he was feeling discouraged. ...more

January 19, 2008

Less than a week before County Attorney Robert Sumner is slated to retire, his chief assistant, Barbara Wilhite, has resigned to return to the private sector. ...more

January 15, 2008

County commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to pay Tallahassee lawyer Jake Varn an additional $15,000 to push through a permit for the long-delayed Ridge Road extension project, for a total $255,000. ...more

January 11, 2008

Some Pasco County commissioners want to continue full speed ahead on the long-delayed plan to extend Ridge Road east to the Suncoast Parkway and beyond. ...more

January 8, 2008