The vehicle hit 100 mph as it tried to outrun police along Interstate 275 on Saturday night, leading them across the Howard Frankland Bridge before officers were able to stop it miles down the highway in south St. Petersburg. ...more

January 4, 2010

Please understand; most of us are okay. It is a small minority that disrupts our society, but when we witness wrongdoing and do nothing, we are also guilty. For example: my generation, the children of the Greatest Generation, pursued pot, marijuana, which led to cocaine and LSD, etc (not all of us.) We thought nothing of it, not conscious these drugs just don't go away. We accumulated and passed them on to future generations, not considering that years later the results would become evident, the amount and substance ingested dictating the degree of results. ...more

December 23, 2009

The last time Buju Banton was in town to perform, he ignited a controversy at the Cuban Club over his perceived anti-gay lyrics. ...more

December 18, 2009

Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is facing charges that he attempted along with others to buy a large quantity of cocaine from an undercover law enforcement officer. ...more

December 14, 2009

Jury selection begins today in the trial of Deneilo Bradshaw, one of two men accused in the slaying of 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman during a botched drug sting in May 2008. ...more

November 30, 2009

A small plastic bag containing cocaine was found in a washing machine at a St. Petersburg fire station recently, leading to two separate investigations, police said. The police department heard of the find at a station at 4701 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. S. shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, said St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt. ...more

September 24, 2009

A Tampa woman who has been waiting more than two decades to hear that the killer of her parents is dead has finally gotten her wish. ...more

September 8, 2009

The man who owned an 8-foot Burmese python that suffocated a little girl last month has been arrested on drug charges. ...more

August 8, 2009

Tampa police say they arrested a 21-year-old man this morning after a child reported he had kidnapped and sexually assaulted her today. ...more

July 3, 2009

At a time when Hulk Hogan's attorneys were paying close attention to the spending habits of estranged wife Linda Bollea, Linda Bollea went to her Tampa hairdresser's salon and asked that checks be cashed so Linda Bollea could buy drugs, the hairdresser testified this afternoon. ...more

June 15, 2009