Police Chief Chuck Harmon today released the sequence of escalating events that led to Sunday's drive-by shooting that claimed the life of an 8-year-old girl, while the girl's family urged the members of the two warring groups involved to stop their cycle of revenge. ...more

April 7, 2009

Three people are facing armed drug trafficking charges after investigators discovered a stash of cocaine, marijuana, morphine and Ecstasy in a house south of Gunn Highway, affidavits say. ...more

December 18, 2008

Cynthia Woods lost her son to gunfire three years ago. Today, her life was touched by violence again when an unknown gunman shot and killed her daughter-in-law as she slept in a car along the shores of Lake Maggiore. Police identified the victim as Angela Burgess, 32, of St. Petersburg. The mother of four died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, the 13th homicide in the city this year. ...more

May 9, 2008