Jerold Dale Hager was a few blocks from dropping off his grandsons. They had stopped to grab milkshakes at Arby's after a Boy Scouts meeting Monday night, and Hager was behind the wheel of his Ford pickup, heading west on Busch Boulevard. ...more

October 21, 2009

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Lawyers for an ambulance driver and a former politician accused of trying to extort millions from John Travolta urged jurors today to clear their clients, accusing the actor's attorneys of setting them up. ...more

October 20, 2009

A Bahamas senator accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta after his son's death resigned on Saturday and vowed to prove her innocence. ...more

January 24, 2009

Authorities in the Bahamas have charged a lawmaker and detained two other people in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday. ...more

January 24, 2009

Authorities in the Bahamas have detained an island lawmaker and a paramedic in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday. ...more

January 23, 2009

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Pasco deputy went to Walgreens at Sunray Drive and U.S. 19 to check out a report of a "suspicious person." ...more

October 16, 2008

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Pasco deputy went to Walgreens at Sunray Drive and U.S. 19 to check out a report of a "suspicious person." What he found was a man with a large bleeding cut, saying he was in pain and needing medical attention. "I think I'm dying," the man said after admitting he had smoked crack a while earlier, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

ST PETERSBURG - An ambulance driver and paramedic were injured this afternoon when the ambulance they were in collided with a flatbed truck on Interstate 275, fire officials said. According to Lt. Joel Granata of St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue, the SunStar ambulance was on its way to an emergency, with its lights and sirens activated, when it was struck in the rear by the flatbed truck, near Roosevelt Boulevard, at about 12:30 p.m. ...more

May 19, 2008

In 1917 – more than 90-years ago -- the United States entered the Great Conflict in Europe. Sixteen-year-old Frank Buckles decided he wanted in, too. He figured he could fib about his age; say he's 18. But the Army recruiter told him, "No good: you need to be 21." So he kept shopping around until finally, he found a recruiter who believed him when he said his home state of Missouri didn't keep birth records when he was born; it's back home on the farm, an entry in the family Bible. ...more

February 6, 2008