Openly Gay Miami-Dade Judge Nominated As Federal Judge
William L. Thomas, an openly gay Miami-Dade judge, was nominated Wednesday as a federal judge in South Florida.
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William L. Thomas, an openly gay Miami-Dade judge, was nominated Wednesday as a federal judge in South Florida.
Florida's House of Representatives welcomed Rep. Steve Precourt, an Orlando Republican, as the Florida House's new majority leader.
Lots of people were upset when Barack Obama won a second term in this month's election, but a Key West man was so angry by the results and by business problems that he killed himself, after warning friends he wouldn't be around if Obana was.
Congressman Allen West said Tuesday evening he won't give up his fight to get his seat back in Congress. West said he's asked a Florida judge to order a recount for one county in his congressional race against Patrick Murphy.
Florida Governor Rick Scott's mother, Esther, passed away Tuesday at the age of 84 in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri.
Florida's fiasco on Election Day is getting worse. Broward elections workers Monday said they found 963 unaccounted-for ballots in a warehouse a week after the election was over, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Former Congressman Allen West hasn't conceded the election to Representative-elect Patrick Murphy, but West may have another job lined up for him if he chooses to finally concede.
A Florida task force created to review the state's controversial Stand Your Ground law is scheduled for its final meeting Tuesday in Pensacola.
A coalition of voter protection groups gathered on the steps of the Miami-Dade and Orange County courthouses Monday urgently calling for an independent task force be created to investigate what went wrong in Florida on Election Day and the early voting period.
Congressman Allen West is still asking for a full recount after losing the election to democrat Patrick Murphy last Tuesday.
At a Veterans' Day event in Southwest Miami-Dade Monday Democratic Congressman-elect Joe Garcia and longtime Republican Congressman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen embraced fondly but took varying views on the scandal that has engulfed former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Several labor unions liberal groups made several recommendations Monday on ways to expand early voting and sites.
Harassing emails sent to a woman in Tampa reportedly started a series of events which uncovered former CIA director David Petraeus affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell and led to his subsequent resignation last Friday.
In the hotly contested Florida District 18 congressional race, a partial recount Sunday in St. Lucie County gave incumbent Allen West a slight bump, but not enough to warrant a full recount or end threats of a lawsuit from his campaign.
The FBI investigation into former CIA chief David Petraeus, which uncovered his affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, reportedly began after Broadwell allegedly sent harassing emails to a woman in Tampa.
