As any self-respecting big-time athlete would, Tim Beckham tried to play it cool Thursday afternoon. ...more

June 20, 2008

The buzzword the Rays kept using to describe Tim Beckham on Thursday was "advanced." ...more

June 6, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring woman and her family were safe Tuesday after getting away from her husband, who reportedly beat the woman and threatened to shoot them all if they tried to leave their home. Jesus Vasquez Grimaldo, 44, of Sebring, also known as Jesus Vasquez, Jose Grimaldo and Jose Grimaldo Vasquez, was booked Monday on charges of two counts of kidnap-false imprisonment adult victim, resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, kidnap-false imprisonment of a child with aggravated abuse, three counts of cruelty toward a child with infliction of physical or mental injury and one count of battery. ...more

June 3, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - An 18-year-old Dixie Hollins High School student arrested Friday on charges he sexually battered a 15-year-old girl on a school bus was released from custody early today. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - World War I veteran Harry Landis has died in Sun City Center at the age of 108, leaving 107-year-old Frank Buckles of West Virginia as the only known surviving World War I veteran. ...more

February 6, 2008

LARGO - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an 18-year-old found shot in his car in Largo. ...more

January 25, 2008

Jose Morales awoke New Year's Day and rolled over to see his girlfriend next to him with tears streaming down her face. ...more

January 2, 2008

An unarmed, mentally ill teenager could be heard cursing and yelling "I've got a gun!" during a frantic 911 call made by his exasperated mother before police arrived and killed him with a 20-bullet barrage, according to a tape of the call released Tuesday. ...more

November 14, 2007

A teenager who admitted plotting a school attack near Philadelphia had communicated online about the Columbine massacre with a teenage outcast who killed eight people and himself in a high school shooting in Finland, the Pennsylvania boy's attorney said Monday. ...more

November 13, 2007

TAMPA - An 18-year-old was shot twice after trick-or-treating last night but has refused to name his attacker, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said. ...more

November 1, 2007