TAMPA - A car drove through the front of an Einstein Bros. Bagels Friday morning in Tampa. ...more

July 4, 2008

TAMPA - A lawyer who claims two of his associates stole clients and case files when they left to start their own firm was awarded nearly $1 million from a jury on Monday. ...more

July 2, 2008

A mother is suing the Hernando County School Board on behalf of her autistic son, claiming the district did nothing to protect him from attack on his school bus. ...more

June 18, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. ...more

June 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Stanley R. Mills wrote that Deerwood Academy was overpaid when the district gave the school its per-student funding. The school received $292,863, but didn't enroll enough students to earn that amount and should have been given $199,364, Mills wrote. ...more

June 12, 2008

More than 800 black farmers filed a new lawsuit against the Agriculture Department just two weeks after Congress reopened a 1999 settlement over past discrimination. ...more

June 5, 2008

CANADA - A man who claimed that he became depressed, anxious and phobic after finding a dead fly in a bottle of water will no longer get the judgment he won against a bottling company, Canada's top court ruled Thursday. ...more

May 25, 2008

FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) – More than 58,000 Broward County residents whose trees were cut down by the state to fight citrus canker want a new trial on damages. Homeowner attorney Robert Gilbert said in a motion filed Monday that the May 6 jury award of $11.5 million did not equal full compensation. The motion said state lawyers were allowed to present improper evidence and make arguments that unfairly influenced jurors to award less money. Gilbert said that amounted to a miscarriage of justice. ...more

May 19, 2008

SEBRING — Two blocks near Sebring Parkway were evacuated this morning when a construction worker hit a gas line while working on the Sebring Parkway construction Monday morning. ...more

February 25, 2008

AVON PARK — The Avon Park Community Center cost the city and its taxpayers an average of well over $10,000 every year since it opened at its current location, city records indicate. For all but one year since record-keeping began on the community center, expenses were considerably higher than revenues. This is without considering the damages the building received during the 2004 hurricane season. Last week, the community center's losses led at least one councilman to compare it to the city's airport, accusing both of losing money each year. "We need to either get rid of it or do it right," Councilman George Hall said Monday. Hall blamed the center's losses partially on the lack of advertising for it. He added that there was not even an information box placed there. ...more

February 19, 2008