The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new evidentiary hearing in a 22-year-old Leon County murder case and said it must be sent outside the 2nd Judicial Circuit to avoid any appearance of judicial bias. ...more

September 26, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court has reversed two death sentences, one a 22-year-old murder case from Leon County and the other in the killing of a Brevard County couple in 2000. ...more

September 25, 2008

Tallahassee has released its report on drug informant Rachel Hoffman's death, as well as the disciplinary action being taken within the Tallahassee Police Department. ...more

September 25, 2008

A judge on Tuesday ordered a second recount in a disputed judicial race in Palm Beach County, where 12 ballots remain unaccounted for after an initial 3,500 ballots went missing after election night. ...more

September 18, 2008

Despite thousands of price-gouging complaints statewide, gasoline prices in Florida continued to rise today. ...more

September 17, 2008

SARASOTA - At Duke's BP in Sarasota, the price of regular grade gas hovered just below $4 a gallon today. ...more

September 16, 2008

Jere N. Moore Jr., a former general desk editor in New York for The Associated Press who also served as the news cooperative's Tallahassee correspondent, has died after a brief battle with lung cancer. He was 76. ...more

September 15, 2008

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A Tallahassee judge has ordered the ballots sealed in a disputed Palm Beach judicial election as the facts of what happened continued to emerge. ...more

September 13, 2008

The Hernando County Supervisor of Elections Office might have used a star on a sign in front of the county courthouse to mark how many voters showed up for Tuesday's primary, but officials never expected the turnout to be stellar. ...more

August 28, 2008

I have not commented on the building of the the new proposed sheriff building. I grew up in Sebring and in 1974 began my career with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. I learned through three sheriffs that a department works together. Now, employees must answer the phone and answer "sheriff's office" or "office of sheriff." It's just semantics to most, but it's still a loss. The public must realize that these are honorable servants (mostly.) They deserve not to be disposed of, or shoved or shuttled around. When they selected this employment or career, with conditions of danger, terrible hours, weather, pay, etc., I learned that you don't survive, you endure semantics. True, your perception is still altered. Driving by the vacated Winn- Dixie store on Kenilworth and Lakeview, I thought that it was a large building on a vast lot, located in Sebring, close to the courthouse, jail and government buildings. If the new sheriff's office is built, what effect or loss to the economy is there to the city of Sebring? ...more

August 22, 2008