A state attorney said today that he intends to file grand theft charges this afternoon against former House Speaker Ray Sansom. ...more

January 6, 2010

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was romantically involved with a former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said. ...more

December 5, 2009

His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. But a local community organization says David William Earley may just be dead broke. ...more

February 6, 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

The FBI is investigating financial affairs involving 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. and Las Vegas stripper Christy Yamanaka, say three sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. ...more

January 23, 2009

The FBI is investigating financial affairs involving 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. and Las Vegas stripper Christy Yamanaka, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. ...more

January 22, 2009

Voters in Pasco and Pinellas counties will elect a new circuit judge Nov. 4 and will be joined by Hillsborough voters in deciding whether to retain four appeals court judges and a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

October 17, 2008

Pasco County voters have the tough task of choosing an elections supervisor to succeed Kurt Browning, who left the post after 26 years to become Florida's secretary of state in early 2007. ...more

October 5, 2008

There will most likely be a runoff in the empty circuit judge's seat in the Inverness-based Fifth Circuit's Group 3. ...more

August 27, 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