Clearwater police have identified the homeowner they say shot someone in his garage this morning. Lester Rollins, 58, was sitting in his garage at 902 Pennsylvania Ave. at 4:45 a.m. when a man approached, said Elizabeth Daly-Watts, a spokeswoman for Clearwater's public safety departments. ...more

August 5, 2008

A manager of the Ybor City night spot Club Prana was arrested early Sunday in St. Petersburg and charged with attempted murder. ...more

July 29, 2008

A manager of Club Prana, an Ybor City nightclub, was arrested early Sunday in St. Petersburg and charged with attempted murder. The manager, Jeffrey Lew, was involved in a confrontation with Emmanuel "Manny" Bellevue and Charley "Loon" Fields at 3:30 a.m. Saturday near the club, a police report states. ...more

July 28, 2008

CLEARWATER - Technically speaking, the Clearwater Police Department violated evidentiary procedure by not preserving surveillance video taken at a McDonald's restaurant the day a grandmother was arrested outside, a judge said today. ...more

July 10, 2008

A year ago Sunday, James Shields was not hiding his disappointment for a stellar season that suddenly went bad. ...more

July 7, 2008

A powerful suicide blast killed at least 15 people in and injured dozens of others here Sunday evening, shortly after a large protest rally marking the one-year anniversary of the government forces' raid on a radical mosque. Most of the dead were police officers. ...more

July 7, 2008

PINELLAS PARK Police officers responded to a call of gunfire early this morning, but witnesses said it was just teens setting off fireworks. An hour later a man showed up at an area hospital with gunshot wound he said he got at the initial location. ...more

June 29, 2008

Shawn Chacon was put on waivers Thursday by the Houston Astros, a day after he got into a physical altercation with General Manager Ed Wade. ...more

June 27, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Family and community members gathered Wednesday night to remember a 17-year-old Gibbs High School student shot and killed by a police officer over the weekend. ...more

June 11, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — Though he had had no brushes with the law before a police officer fatally shot him this weekend, Javon Dawson had taken on the persona of a street thug on his MySpace page. On Saturday night, Dawson, 17, was spotted firing a gun into the air outside the Shining Light Masonic Lodge, where there was a graduation party. He got into a confrontation with St. Petersburg police officer Terrence Nemeth, with Nemeth telling him to put down the weapon, and Dawson running off, pointing his gun at Nemeth as he fled before Nemeth fired. ...more

June 10, 2008