Monday morning's call to 7983 Shadow Run Drive was nothing unusual for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. The agency already had been called to the home three times in March, including the night before. ...more

March 31, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009

- Cornell Harris Jr. and Robert B. Cummings Jr. were childhood friends who sometimes worked out together at a local boxing club. ...more

March 14, 2009

When Ernest Allen Jr. was killed outside his auto repair shop Monday, the community lost more than a trusted businessman. ...more

January 1, 2009

A popular Plant High School student died and three other classmates were injured Friday night in a car accident on Interstate 75 near Micanopy after the driver lost control of the vehicle. ...more

November 15, 2008

Joe McGuire, manager of the Citrus Park All-Stars, said Tuesday morning's scene looked like a typical family vacation. There they were - a bunch of 12- and 13-year-old boys - jumping in the swimming pool, horsing around, having the time of their lives. ...more

August 20, 2008

A group of Columbus Clippers is playing poker in the cramped clubhouse at Harbor Park, their bodies hunched over a table and the cards pressed to their faces. None are recognizable, except the one with the bald pate and blond goatee. That is Mike Bacsik, a journeyman pitcher better known as the man who gave up Barry Bonds' 756th home run - the one that broke Hank Aaron's career record. ...more

August 7, 2008

Police have arrested a Florida woman they say followed her ex-husband across the country and then stabbed him repeatedly at an Iowa mall. ...more

July 10, 2008

Five rounds into the French Open, king of clay Rafael Nadal still awaits a serious challenge. ...more

June 4, 2008

BRANDON It was a high-school football jamboree, but it was more than that. You knew it as players from Brandon, Bloomingdale, Riverview and East Bay lined up until they made a square on Brandon's football field. You knew it by the silence. It was for a kid who never gave up, a kid who will never grow up. ...more

May 23, 2008