Unemployment compensation taxes paid by Florida businesses will skyrocket next year due to the state's high jobless rate that hit 11 percent in September, revenue officials said today. ...more

November 18, 2009

Confusion over a new circuit clerk filing fee has prompted a lawsuit, filed last week in Hillsborough County. ...more

March 31, 2009

Attorney Gaylord Wood Jr. has been practicing law since 1962 and he admits nothing really surprises him anymore. ...more

March 12, 2009

But school district's attorney says case could set precedent. ...more

March 11, 2009

Everybody's talking about David William Earley. His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. And now a local community organization said maybe Earley is really just dead broke. If so, said Michael Bernstein of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, the New Port Richey man is in good company. Earley, who may face prison for failure to pay a quarter-million dollars in child support and for hiding from probation officers, is like a lot of people helped by Jewish Family Services, Bernstein suggests. ...more

February 5, 2009

A tip led Pasco County sheriff's deputies to a man they had been chasing for two weeks for failing to pay nearly $165,000 in child support. ...more

January 20, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 17, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 15, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-sized lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. But one thing about Earley, 42, sets him apart from other dads in the neighborhood. He's a fugitive hiding in plain sight, wanted by the law since 2007 on felony charges of failure to pay child support. A list of Florida's deadbeat parents, administered by the state Department of Revenue, is the best measure of the growing problem that Earley represents: The list of cases has increased more than 100,000 during the past five years, to 792,000. ...more

January 14, 2009

The rapid rate of foreclosures in Florida is starting to change the way county property appraisers do business, and the result could mean a change in home values and property tax bills next year. ...more

December 10, 2008