Manatee County detectives are investigating an inmate's apparent suicide Monday night at the Manatee County Jail. ...more

August 5, 2008

A 66-year-old man was charged Friday with soliciting sex with children via the Internet - with a law enforcement official posing as a parent. ...more

August 2, 2008

Backyard swimming pools are a treat for most families, but they also can be a source of danger for infants and toddlers. ...more

July 27, 2008

A former St. Petersburg man has been extradited from Michigan to face charges he raped a girl last year, impregnating her in the process, according to court documents unsealed this morning. Ken M. Gordon, 30, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning on one count of sexual battery. Bail was set at $250,000. ...more

July 21, 2008

They can. They can't. The Rays can make the playoffs if they play like they did their first two games off the All-Star break, rousing wins against Blue Jays pitchers A.J. Burnett and Roy Halladay. ...more

July 21, 2008

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital recently. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

July 2, 2008

Bill Jakob arrived in this small town with an offer to help police curb the community's methamphetamine problem. ...more

June 29, 2008

Sister Claire LeBoeuf has immersed herself in the lives of children since the day she took vows with the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1962. ...more

June 28, 2008

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital last week. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

June 28, 2008

TAMPA – Two men who changed their minds about testifying against their co-defendants were sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for their role in a 2006 Spring Hill marijuana growing operation. ...more

June 20, 2008