A dispute over $4 owed in a dice game led to a gunshot, police say. ...more

March 2, 2009

Kids - by their very definition - will be kids, but eventually Mom and Dad will tire of their children's misbehavior and lay down the law. ...more

February 22, 2009

In response to your Feb. 16 editorial ("State Lawmaker's Bark Aimed At Wrong Tree"), you failed to realize the huge costs that euthanizing dogs and cats have on local governments. ...more

February 21, 2009

Three people whose prank of putting a chair on Interstate 4 in the middle of the night and causing the death of a Longwood police officer will go to prison. ...more

February 20, 2009

A St. Petersburg police officer has been suspended for two days after she left a woman arrested for a traffic violation in a van for up to 45 minutes while the officer went to get lunch, according to police documents released this afternoon. ...more

February 19, 2009

A teenager said she had sex with a Tarpon Springs police officer she worked with while she was a student at Tarpon Springs High School, but she was 18 at the time and had already graduated, according to a criminal case file released this morning by the police department. ...more

February 18, 2009

A 21-year-old woman whose attorney says was kept in a transport van for 45 minutes while a St. Petersburg police officer went to lunch was found not guilty today of the charges that landed her in custody in the first place. ...more

February 12, 2009

A woman was shot and killed tonight in an incident involving St. Petersburg police officers, according to the police department. ...more

February 10, 2009

A man in his mid-20s pretended to be a police officer and robbed a Bradenton man Friday, Bradenton police say. ...more

February 10, 2009

A local man remained in jail Thursday in lieu of a $12,750 bond after being arrested for allegedly striking a police officer and for drug charges. ...more

February 9, 2009