Spring Hill Fire Rescue Commissioner George Biro did not violate Florida's Sunshine Law when he submitted a letter asking his colleagues on the board to vote on a replacement for the outgoing chief. ...more

February 16, 2008

Spring Hill Fire Rescue Commissioner George Biro did not violate Florida's Sunshine Law when he submitted a letter asking his colleagues on the board to vote on a replacement for the outgoing chief. ...more

February 15, 2008

The voting district boundaries for Osceola County's school board are illegal and new ones must be created to avoid a federal lawsuit, the Department of Justice said. ...more

February 4, 2008

Federal regulators have ordered medical device maker Stryker Corp. to fix a host of long-standing problems in its manufacturing of hip replacement parts that have triggered multiple patient complaints and forced some to have follow-up surgeries. Stryker shares fell almost 2 percent. ...more

January 17, 2008

A slight woman with thick-framed glasses and somewhat disheveled graying hair wore an orange jail jumpsuit Tuesday as she sat in federal court. ...more

November 28, 2007

TAMPA U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas B. McCoun III Deloris Jean Baines threatening president ...more

November 27, 2007

AVON PARK — Memorial Elementary School is scheduled to open for classes in August, but first the school district has to resolve water/sewer service issues for the school. The School Board of Highlands County and the city of Avon Park are at a stalemate over water reclamation piping. Avon Park wants the school district to pay about $180,000 for the installation of more than 9,000 feet of "purple pipe" to transport reclaimed water. It is quite possible the school district would spend that money not knowing when the reclaimed water would be available to the school site, according to a letter the school board approved Tuesday to send to the city of Avon Park. It is likely to be three to five years before any reclaimed water is available for irrigation use at the school. "The school board is being asked to completely fund the master infrastructure required for this area," the letter states. ...more

November 24, 2007

The Hillsborough County School District does not know the contents of more than 500 text messages a suspended Plant High School music teacher sent to a student, but found the behavior inappropriate anyway. ...more

November 22, 2007

The police chief was right to fire a Brooksville police officer who made derogatory remarks about a female dispatcher and then lied about it, the city manager has decided. ...more

November 21, 2007

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County School District does not know the contents of more than 500 text messages a suspended Plant High School music teacher sent to a student but found the behavior inappropriate anyway. ...more

November 21, 2007