Motorists should avoid a portion of eastbound Seventh Avenue on Monday. ...more

November 23, 2008

8:40 a.m.: Would-be voter Robert Clemente says he is not impressed by assurances that there will not be any problems at the Precinct 43 polling location in Holiday. "I arrived at 7:50 a.m. and about 15 people were standing outside on the sidewalk," says Clemente. "Someone came up to me and said the polling place is closed, you can't vote now. I asked why. He said that they got the wrong component for the machine. I asked when I could vote. He said come back in about 20 minutes." ...more

November 4, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG An unidentified man is in critical condition after apparently taking a spill while riding his bicycle on the sidewalk along 22nd Avenue North, authorities report. ...more

November 1, 2008

Police have arrested a 15-year-old in connection with the July 25 shooting of a Tampa man. ...more

September 17, 2008

A 41-year-old woman who was inline skating home from work was wounded with birdshot early Friday morning in a drive-by shooting, Clearwater police said. ...more

September 13, 2008

A 41-year-old woman who was in-line skating home from work was wounded with birdshot this morning in a drive-by shooting, Clearwater police said. ...more

September 12, 2008

A 26-year-old Tampa man was arrested Thursday for road rage that caused a fatal automobile accident in April, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

September 12, 2008

A toddler wandered out of his home early Thursday, crawled two blocks to U.S. 41 and was about to cross the busy road when a driver stopped to help him, police say. The discovery of the child on Sarasota's busiest thoroughfare triggered a criminal investigation. Detectives went door-to-door to find the boy's parents -- and eventually discovered them at home asleep. ...more

September 12, 2008

After getting home from work Tuesday, Joe Desousa took his 11-year-old pit bull, Troy, out for a walk and moments later he was running for his life, he said. ...more

September 11, 2008

After getting home from work Tuesday, Joe Desousa took his 11-year-old pit bull, Troy, out for a walk and moments later he was running for his life. He kept to his property and the sidewalk behind his house along Library Road and then started back toward his home on Muffin Court when he saw his neighbor coming toward him. Then he saw the machete in one hand and gun in the other as the man approached, he said. Peter J. Petraglia, 62, screamed to Desousa he was going to kill him, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report, and squeezed the trigger, firing the gun but missed him. Desousa started to run toward his porch with Troy in tow. ...more

September 10, 2008