By Steve Bousquet, Times Columnist Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Pam Bondi left the Hillsborough County prosecutor's office to become attorney general, but she and her former boss have some unfinished business that both say is a matter of life and death — for them. Bondi and Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober are lobbying against the release of a Florida inmate that Ober helped lock away more than ...

Clearwater, Florida-- The Pinellas County Jail now offers family members and friends of inmates a way to deposit money into an inmate's commissary fund from anywhere with phone or inernet service. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Detention and Corrections ...

Last year, while Florida's crime rate dropped a miniscule ... Gee even has an investigator assigned to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he often learns about new criminal schemes, including the IRS scam. Crime, it should be stressed, has ...

WASHINGTON — Florida's top Congressional Democrats broke with President ... "An American citizen is locked up in a Cuban jail now for trying to provide internet access to Cubans, and in the last few months since Pope Benedict's visit, Cubans ...

Florida. Also last Monday, April 30, the firm succeeded in helping a Tampa college student who had been recently charged with underage DUI (Case 1174-XDY in Hillsborough County Court). According to Attorney Jeff Council Paulk, the 19-year-old girl failed ...

Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by state law to sentence her to 20 years in prison.

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme court says charter counties can have term limits ... Other counties with term limits are Brevard, Clay, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Polk and Volusia. A term limit proposal is on the Nov. 6 ballot ...

By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, May 15, 2012 TAMPA — Another governmental agency is trying to get money back from former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White. The State Board of Administration sued White earlier this month seeking $68,436 he withdrew from a retirement account after leaving office in 2010. Under Florida law, public employees convicted of certain crimes ...

Meng interviewed 52 farmworkers and 110 attorneys, social service providers, law enforcement officials and members of the agriculture industry in New York, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and the state of ...

TAMPA — The attorney for 71-year-old Trevor Dooley, who fatally shot a younger neighbor during an argument in 2010, thinks he still can win his client immunity under Florida's "stand ... held someplace other than Hillsborough County because ...

(AP) The Florida Supreme court says charter counties can have term limits for ... Other counties with term limits are Brevard, Clay, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Polk and Volusia. A term limit proposal is on the Nov. 6 ballot in ...

At best, Jacksonville had narrowly fallen to No. 2 behind Miami-Dade — so it would have been a ... How do we explain falling crime in other large cities across Florida, decreases in both incarceration and crime in Hillsborough, for example ...

A suspect wanted in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University band member turned himself in at a county jail in Tampa, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Thursday. Bryan Jones is one of 13 suspects charged Wednesday after an investigation into the November 2011 death of drum major Robert Champion. Jones is one of 11 facing a third-degree felony charge of hazing and causing injury ...

Former County Attorney Renee Lee appeared before an Administrative Law Judge on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 in an attempt to quash the fact that the Florida ... of the Hillsborough County Commission. The hearing took place in Tampa and Tallahassee ...

TAMPA, Florida -- "There's only one person I will talk to about all this and it's the only person I trust: Mike Deeson." That's how the interview with former Hillsborough Commissioner ... felt getting ready to report to federal prison to serve his three ...

Riverview, Florida-- Police arrested 23-year ... at the jail and began the booking process, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Detention Deputy recognized Zertuche from the Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay website as being wanted on Attempted Murder charges.

(AP) — Authorities in Florida have ... in Wednesday night in Hillsborough County. He was released after posting a $15,000 bond. Meanwhile, a Leon County judge refused Thursday to let another suspect, Caleb Jackson, leave jail because he's already on ...

Hillsborough County, Florida -- Pasco County is sending out a warning about ... Crist tells 10 News he's asked the county attorney to look at the possibility of a burn ban, especially after seeing an 80-acre fire break out in a rural area near Lithia ...

In 1821, the United States purchased Florida from Spain (see Adams-Onís Treaty), partly to reduce Indian ... Four attempts have been made to consolidate the municipal government of the city of Tampa with the county government of Hillsborough County ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by state law to sentence her to 20 years in prison.

Facing a sexual harassment accusation and three years in prison for bribery, former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White got a break from the Florida Commission on Ethics Friday. The panel voted 4-3 to dismiss its case against the commissioner because White is criminally convicted and no longer poses a threat to the public. The commission found probable cause last May that White was ...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says 20-year ... Leon County jailJonathan Boyce, Leon County jail Aaron Golson, Gadsden County jailJessie Baskin, Miami-Dade County jailHarold Finley, Palm Beach County jailBryan Jones, Hillsborough ...

After a Florida woman gets 20 years for firing at a wall – an incident in which nobody was hurt – critics question mandatory-minimum sentencing laws.

Charters in at least 10 counties --- Broward, Brevard, Clay, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Polk, Sarasota and Volusia --- include term limits for commissioners, according to a court filing by the Florida Association of Counties.