President Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday that he intended to lift emergency rule and restore the constitution by Dec. 16, saying he had fulfilled his promise to bring democracy to Pakistan and calling on political parties to participate in January elections. ...more

November 30, 2007

A circuit judge has upheld a state law that allows voters to revoke their signatures on petitions for constitutional amendments. ...more

November 28, 2007

These days, lots of important decisions about your life are being made in Tallahassee. ...more

November 25, 2007

These days, lots of important decisions about your life are being made in Tallahassee. How much property tax you will pay, what kind of insurance you can buy, whether public education and health care will be funded adequately. Increasingly, however, these decisions are being made in private, without the scrutiny of the public and the media. ...more

November 24, 2007

The State Department said Friday it will require some diplomats to serve in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers willing to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. ...more

October 27, 2007

President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, declined Thursday to say whether he considered harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, to constitute torture or to be illegal if used on terrorism suspects. ...more

October 19, 2007

Pasco County paused Tuesday to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to support members of the military. Events were held throughout the county, including the continuation of a tradition started one year after the attacks. ...more

September 12, 2007