LAND O' LAKES - A 21-year-old Land O' Lakes man was being treated for serious injuries at a St. Petersburg hospital Friday and a man accused of striking him with his truck faces DUI charges. ...more

July 25, 2009

A longtime Shriners official from St. Petersburg was recently elected to become the highest-ranking member in the world. ...more

July 22, 2009

Officials will close 10th Avenue North just west of 34th Street North all night to non local traffic after an oak tree fell on the residential street, inciting two beehives with a total of 40,000 to 60,000 bees. ...more

July 22, 2009

The owner of Roll Call is buying Congressional Quarterly in a deal that will bring two well-known publications covering Capitol Hill and Washington politics under the same corporate umbrella. ...more

July 22, 2009

A Tampa woman was detained at the St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport this morning and charged with violating a concealed weapons permit as she walked through a security checkpoint with a .32-caliber handgun in her purse. Frances A. Fuller, 55, 3709 N. 36th St., has a concealed weapons permit, but the permit does not allow her to carry her gun onto airport property, according to Pinellas County sheriff's deputies who arrested Fuller shortly after 7 a.m. today. ...more

July 20, 2009

I write as an immigrant of 12 years from Britain, who recently became a citizen. I love this country, but its health system in no way compares to the National Health system of Britain, which I always found to be excellent. America's health system is at the mercy of private insurers, who have no business dealing with people's health because they work solely for profit, not for a good health result. And the cost ...! ...more

July 20, 2009

A man who had pulled a black T-shirt over his face and head, covering everything except for his eyes, robbed a St. Petersburg convenience store at gunpoint this evening, according to the Pinellas Sheriff's Office. ...more

July 19, 2009

The body of a woman turned up in Lake Maggiore this morning, about five feet from shore, according to St. Petersburg fire officials. ...more

July 19, 2009

Officers shot and killed a pit bull this morning after it charged them and bit one, St. Pete police said. ...more

July 15, 2009

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport reported a 3 percent gain in passengers in June to 74,651, bucking a nationwide decline brought on by the recession. ...more

July 15, 2009