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Circuit Judge William Burgess III found Pinellas County Sheriff’s detective Michael Alvarez engaged in a “ruse” to obtain a search warrant for a crime used to obtain evidence to prosecute for other crimes.

The blame shifting began even before the dust cleared from the March 15, 2018 collapse of what was to be Florida International University’s showcase pedestrian bridge over Southwest Eighth Street.

A judge has rejected a request by defense attorneys in the Florida high school massacre case to remove the state’s prosecutors because they won’t reconsider seeking the death penalty.

A lawsuit by restaurant workers and a prominent restaurateur and hotelier who say President Donald Trump has business conflicts that violate the Constitution was restored Friday by a federal appeals court after a judge on a lower court dismissed it. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, on a 2-1 vote, rejected a judge’s...

Prosecutors, defense attorneys and the judge are picking six jurors whose task could be complicated by Florida’s controversial “stand your ground law” and by race: Drejka is white and McGlockton was black.

A four-year-old fight to stop Florida’s 24-hour waiting period for abortions suffered a setback on Thursday when an appeals court ruled that a judge shouldn’t have declared the law unconstitutional without a full trial.

A Florida guardian accused of filing “do not resuscitate” orders on behalf of clients without their permission is resigning from more cases after she was already forced out of nearly 100.

The Florida Supreme Court is suspending a Broward County judge without pay for grabbing a courthouse employee by the neck and shaking him.

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women.

The manslaughter charge against an Alabama woman who lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight was dropped Saturday. Circuit Judge David Carpenter granted the state’s motion to dismiss the case against Marshae Jones, 28. Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December argument over the fetus’ father, authorities...

The manslaughter charge against an Alabama woman who lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight was dropped Saturday. Circuit Judge David Carpenter granted the state’s motion to dismiss the case against Marshae Jones, 28. Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December argument over the fetus’ father, authorities...

Court officials say a Florida man charged with burglary defecated during a criminal trial and tried to throw his feces at the judge.

A St. Louis judge issued another order Monday to keep Missouri’s only abortion clinic operating while a fight over the facility’s license plays out in court. Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction, which extends his earlier order to temporarily block the state from allowing the St. Louis facility’s license to...

On Thursday, Arkansas authorities confirmed that the identity of a body found outside of a former Republican state lawmaker’s house in Pocahontas is Linda Collins-Smith. While police have not yet provided a cause of death, they have announced the case as a homicide. Collins-Smith served one term in the Arkansas state House, where she was originally elected in 2010 as...

A judge has ruled a former Florida prosecutor with schizophrenia is not guilty by reason of insanity in the slaying of his mother and beating of his father.

A Florida judge has denied a retrial for a former police officer who shot a stranded motorist.

A judge ordered the suspect in last year’s Florida high school massacre to attend his pretrial hearings after his attorneys refused to let her question him.

A Broward circuit judge on Thursday granted Gov. Ron DeSantis’ motion to dismiss a court challenge to his suspension of Scott Israel as Broward County sheriff.

Circuit Judge Donald Hafele wrote in a March 15 decision that G4S Secure Solutions had nothing to do with Omar Mateen’s attack on Pulse nightclub on June 16, 2016.