Former state appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer told a federal judge Friday he destroyed his career and position as community service leader by "one act of bad judgment." ...more

November 14, 2009

Richard Nugent handily won a third term as the county's sheriff Tuesday, beating a write-in political rookie and a Democratic contender. ...more

November 5, 2008

President Bush's nominees to be the next U.S. attorney for Florida's Middle District and to fill a U.S. district judgeship for the area won approval Thursday from the Senate Judiciary Committee. ...more

September 26, 2008

President Bush's nominees to be the next U.S. attorney for Florida's Middle District and to fill a U.S. district judgeship for the area won approval Thursday from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. ...more

September 25, 2008

In an evening marked more by civility than wrangling, the six candidates for two Sixth Circuit judgeships and two candidates for Pasco County clerk of the circuit court aired their views of the offices they seek at a political forum Wednesday. ...more

August 23, 2008

Sandy Hawkins says she has grit. To back up her claim, Hawkins points to the past 19 years she has spent as a single mother and the long hours working two jobs while attending college and law school full time. ...more

August 15, 2008

TAMPA - Two weeks ago, Gov. Charlie Crist appointed a county judge to fill a circuit judge seat left vacant when Monica Sierra resigned to continue as a volunteer for an evangelical mission in Israel's West Bank. ...more

May 23, 2008