With snowbirds on the move, flushing out a deal between the city, the Department of Environmental Protection and Highlands County on the purchase of Landmark Utilities will be met with an increasing sense of urgency. ...more

November 23, 2008

Monday night, Tarpon Springs Planning and Zoning Board members John Tarapani and William Vinson wisely chose to honor a request from a Wal-Mart attorney that they not take part in the board's deliberations on proposed changes in the development for the retailer's proposed store on U.S. 19. Tarapani and Vinson are on record as opposed to Wal-Mart's plans to one of its giant retail complexes adjacent to the Anclote River. ...more

September 27, 2008

Probably the man will always regret that stop at a traffic light. That's where Jason Swanson served the man with a judicial summons over money he owed. Swanson is a process server in Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties and will expand to Hillsborough County in a few months. He has been notifying Pinellas residents of their involvement in legal proceedings for 15 years. ...more

July 25, 2008

The Milberg law firm said Monday that it will pay $75 million to settle a federal kickback case involving class-action lawsuits against some of the nation's biggest corporations. ...more

June 17, 2008

SEBRING — Preston Colby, local public watchdog, was recently in court seeking public records. Colby seeks a release of public records from meetings of the Florida Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative (FHREDI) committee. Colby maintains the the committee held visioning sessions with volunteers in 2006 that violated the Florida Sunshine Law. ...more

May 11, 2008

SARASOTA - There were no warning signs for an October construction roadblock on Interstate 75, where two people died when a semi-tractor trailer plowed into the back of stopped cars, a Florida Highway Patrol report on the crash states. But the report does not weigh in on whether the lack of warnings contributed to the early morning crash, something that likely will be disputed in any civil legal actions. ...more

May 7, 2008