The attorney representing the family of a teenager fatally shot by a St. Petersburg police officer is asking the governor's office to assign a new prosecutor to investigate the incident. ...more

July 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The attorney representing the family of a teenager fatally shot by a St. Petersburg police officer is asking the governor's office to assign a prosecutor other than the local one to investigate the incident. ...more

July 7, 2008

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

Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. beat out Boeing Co. to win a $35 billion order from the Air Force three months ago. ...more

June 10, 2008

The city has hired a new legal watchdog. City council members Wednesday night voted to enter into a contract with Michael J. Brannigan of The Hogan Law Firm to serve as the city's part-time attorney. ...more

June 6, 2008

PORT RICHEY The city has hired a new legal watchdog. City council members Wednesday night voted to enter into a contract with Michael J. Brannigan, of The Hogan Law Firm, to serve as the city's part-time attorney. Brannigan, whose firm also represents the city of Brooksville in Hernando County, has asked for a retainer of $2,500 a month and $225 an hour for litigation, for his services. The council has not yet determined how much he will be compensated. A native Floridian, Brannigan graduated from the University of South Florida in 1992 and received his law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston in 1995. ...more

June 5, 2008

The city council plans to interview three candidates for city attorney. ...more

May 31, 2008

Federal investigators are looking into allegations that several current and former employees of the county's affordable housing office formed a corporation that could compete for grants administered by the office and tried to steer business to a real estate company owned by a spouse of one of the employees. ...more

May 28, 2008

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May 11, 2008

It meanders through the heart of this west Pasco County subdivision, past a state-protected nature preserve of mangrove stands and Brazilian pepper trees. ...more

February 16, 2008