A former Orange-Osceola circuit judge, N. James Turner, removed from the bench by the Florida Supreme Court due to accusations of inappropriate behavior with female co-workers, has accepted a 90-day suspension of his right to practice law.
Terms of the agreement -- reached last month -- were made public Monday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee Monday backed a bill to replace how the student representative to the state Board of Governors is selected.
The bill, SB 1508, by Sen. Bill Montford, D-Apalachicola, would allow Gov. Rick Scott to appoint the student representative, rather than the Florida Student Association selecting a student body president from among the state universities.
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The Senate may be headed toward another floor showdown, this time over funding cuts for the University of South Florida.
USF President Judy Genshaft and Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, emerged from a face-to-face talk Monday saying they still had more work to do over the budget committee chairmans proposal to cut approximately $78 million for the school he hopes to split in two.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement Monday in the wake of a federal court decision invalidating portions of the Environmental Protection Agency's rules governing water standards in the state's river and streams.
This ruling will give Florida an opportunity to enact rules to protect our streams without crippling our economy. Yet another instance of federal government overreach has been prevented," Bondi said.
Bondi had challenged the EPA's numeric nutrient criteria, which pre-empted Florida standards.
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This is a question I wish I'd thought of myself.
In response to a USA Today article last week regarding how some colleges are developing courses on the Occupy faux movement -- with tentative titles like "How to Change the World by Sleeping in a Park and Not Showering," and "Why Your Parents Are Racists Because They Don't Like People Who Look Like You" -- a letter-writer named Karen Hamers from Fort Pierce poses a question: Will they teach about the tea party, too?
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Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the flags outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse, West Palm Beach City Hall and the 4th District Court of Appeal Courthouse to be lowered to half-staff on Tuesday for former Judge John W. Dell.
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Drawn out of his current district, U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns still figures to have an advantage in his re-election run this year.
Just don't tell that to fellow Republicans trying to knock him out in the party primary.
With 12 terms in office and $2.38 million in the bank, the veteran GOP congressman has the power of incumbency and money behind him.
And though his Ocala home is now south and east of the newly designed 3rd Congressional District, nearly 70 percent of his old district remains within the new CD 3.
It is fascinating to see people accusing others of things that they themselves are doing, especially when their own sins are worse.
A poll from We Ask America released on Monday finds the two leading Republican candidates for the GOP presidential nomination dead even in Michigan heading into the state's Feb. 28 primary.
The poll of likely primary voters finds Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney each taking 29 percent. The rest of the field is far back, with Ron Paul in third with 12 percent and Newt Gingrich taking 10 percent. Twenty percent of those surveyed are undecided.
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State regulators Monday heard arguments about whether Florida Power & Light should build a nearly $1.2 billion power plant that the company says will limit air pollution and help meet electricity needs in South Florida.
The plant would replace a 1960s-era facility at Port Everglades in Broward County and start generating electricity in 2016. The Florida Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve what is known as a "determination of need" -- a key step in the project moving forward.
