Circuit Judge Elizabeth Rice slowly counted to five. In a Tampa courtroom Friday morning, Rice was underscoring just how long ...

It was an emotional day in court as a former Hillsborough County detention deputy learned his fate for a deadly high-speed ...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday called for adding 25 judgeships across the state, including eight circuit judges in ...

The Supreme Court of Florida certified on Wednesday the need for 25 additional trial court judges, six of whom would preside ...

Amid continuing legal questions about Florida's death penalty system, a state appeals court rejected lower-court rulings that blocked prosecutors from seeking death sentences in four murder cases. The ...

HILLSBOROUGH – The federal court sentencing of the former director of buildings and grounds for Hillsborough Township Public ...