A man authorities blamed for blowing up a fireworks tent last year pleaded no contest to first-degree arson Friday. ...more

December 6, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist fielded questions from reporters today about his upcoming wedding, his recent meeting with President-elect Barack Obama, and more. ...more

December 3, 2008

A Democratic activist is trying to turn his court challenge over Florida's early primary date into a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all Democratic and Republican voters in Florida. ...more

November 29, 2008

A Democratic activist is trying to turn his court challenge over Florida's early primary date into a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all Democratic and Republican voters in Florida. ...more

November 26, 2008

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. - When 10-year-old Austin Smith heard Barack Obama had been elected president, he had one question: Does this mean I won't get a new gun for Christmas? ...more

November 7, 2008

I am a soldier in Iraq. I have walked the streets of many a village and seen oppression with my own eyes. I am actively engaged in building self-worth into a country that has been enslaved for decades. I am one of many teaching the citizens of Iraq what it means to be free. ...more

October 14, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. ...more

July 26, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. In another, police Chief Chuck Harmon's head has been put on an obscenely overweight body, and the chief is looking intently at a two-layer cheeseburger. Maj. Melanie Bevan appears as both a dominatrix and as the Wicked Witch of the West. These are among more than 180 computer-altered images internal affairs investigators collected as they looked into an allegation that a police officer had posted them online. They were made available today as the result of a public information request. ...more

July 25, 2008

CLEARWATER - A county judge on Thursday said he would hold off on deciding whether five men wielding anti-gay signs at St. Petersburg's gay pride parade last year broke the law. ...more

June 26, 2008

Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less notorious performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind. ...more

December 22, 2007