An argument that began at a convenience store apparently sparked a drive-by shooting this month at Giddens Park. ...more

March 30, 2009

Valerie Laken was taking graduate courses in Slavic literature in Ann Arbor, Mich., when she persuaded her husband to buy a fixer-upper in a neighborhood just beginning to gentrify. They were working on the house soon after they moved in when an old man across the street came by. So, he said, you know the history of this place, right? When Laken said no, the man proceeded to tell them. ...more

March 15, 2009

A Tampa man was arrested Wednesday night after refusing to pull over and sideswiping two vehicles, including a deputy's patrol car, as he drove from Hillsborough to Pinellas County, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

March 12, 2009

Police and medical examiners who thought a Kansas City, Mo., man died of natural causes have changed their minds — after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head. ...more

February 26, 2009

Santonio Holmes' revelation this week that he briefly sold drugs as a youth in Belle Glade has created a stir in the national media, which is exactly what he wanted. ...more

January 30, 2009

The blood has been mopped up, the grenade-scarred marble replaced, the bullet holes covered over. ...more

December 21, 2008

Police are investigating three drive-by shootings over the weekend that one victim believes might be related to a fight at a high school football game. One woman's home was shot at twice within three hours, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

December 15, 2008

With corpses still being pulled from a once-besieged hotel, India's top security official resigned Sunday as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks that killed 174 people. ...more

November 30, 2008

Gunmen thought to have been inspired by al-Qaida stormed a guard post outside the U.S. consulate Wednesday, touching off a deadly firefight that underscored Turkey's difficulty in clamping down on homegrown militants. Three assailants and three police officers were killed in the blitz-style assault. ...more

July 10, 2008

A 20-year-old Bradenton man was dropped off at Manatee Memorial Hospital early today with a life-threatening gunshot wound he received under mysterious circumstances, authorities said. ...more

July 5, 2008