Leon County (Florida)

GOP Has Lock on South, and Democrats Can't Find Key

2004-12-15 00:00:00

The generation-long political retreat of Democrats across the South is disintegrating into a rout. President Bush dominated the South so completely in last month's presidential election that he carried nearly 85% of all the counties across the region --...

Appeals court shields lawmakers from testifying, showing draft maps in redistricting lawsuit

2013-05-22 10:21:00

TALLAHASSEE – A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida�legislators should not be questioned under oath about whether they "intended" to gain partisan advantage when they re-drew congressional maps last year. Two sets of groups have...

Appeals court says legislators can't be questioned about gerrymandering 'intent'

2013-05-22 15:16:54

TALLAHASSEE – A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida legislators may not be questioned under oath about whether they "intended" to gain partisan advantage when they re-drew congressional maps last year. The ruling came in one of two...

Pet projects may face Governor Rick Scott's veto pen

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Turn to any page of Florida's 450-page budget and what's most striking is the missing detail. Yes, as page 421 points out, it's a $74.5 billion spending plan that pays for 114,480.5 positions. But specific descriptions about what the money actually pays...

Former FAMU student Rikki Wills pleads no contest in hazing case

2013-05-10 09:22:00

Former FAMU drum major Rikki Wills, who insists that he tried to shield his college roommate Robert Champion from a brutal hazing in Orlando in 2011, pleaded�no contest�today to�felony hazing�resulting in death. Wills, 25,�will not be sentenced until...

BRIEF: OPINION: Editorial: Delay Florida's teacher evaluation system until federal judge rules on union lawsuit

2013-05-09 12:54:04

A Leon County Circuit Court judge has ruled that the teacher evaluations ordered up in 2011 by Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature do not violate the Florida Constitution. So now they're legal, but they're still absurd. ___ (c)2013 The Palm Beach Post...

State high court hears clash over redistricting plans

2013-05-09 10:27:34

TALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quiet legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn legislative and congressional district maps were designed...

Florida Supreme Court hears redistricting challenge

2013-05-09 07:34:00

TALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quietly simmering legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn maps are still designed to protect ruling...

FSU's athletic programs had nation's 13th-highest revenue in 2012

2013-05-08 09:13:00

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State was one of 13 schools that generated more than $100 million in revenue from its athletics department last year, according to a study released Wednesday by the USA Today. In a report that was tracking increases in subsidies,...

Teachers union plans new "legal challenge" to teacher evaluations

2013-04-15 11:16:00

The Florida Education Association plans tomorrow to file a new legal challenge to Florida's new teacher evaluation system, a teacher union spokesman said. Mark Pudlow, the spokesman, said he could provide no other details until tomorrow. The union...

Charges against FSU sprinter and Olympian Josh Mance dropped by State

2013-04-09 14:03:00

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State sprinter and Olympian Josh Mance was cleared Tuesday of all charges pertaining to a gunplay incident last month that allegedly involved he and another FSU athlete. The state attorney's office submitted to Mance's attorneys...

FSU athlete Stephen Newbold denies firing gun in late-night incident

2013-03-23 13:12:00

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State sprinter Stephen Newbold and his attorney are joining fellow FSU track athlete Josh Mance in questioning a pair of Thursday arrests that came after an off-campus gunplay incident. Two days after being charged with...

Florida governor Ricks Scott and first lady Ann Scott have the first dance at the inaugural ball at the Leon County Civic Center in Tallahassee, FL on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The couple danced to the Van Morrison tune "Have I Told you Lately?

2011-01-04 00:00:00

May 21, 2010 'Winning' $500,000 scratch-off ticket is called misprint Ann Marie Curcio, of Ocala, bought her $20 Gold Rush scratch off ticket on May 13, 2007. The winning numbers 28, 1, 12, 32 and 2 appeared on the ticket.

2010-05-21 10:13:25

area in the early 1950s and spread to Central Florida within a few decades.

2003-10-14 00:00:00