A Fort Lauderdale man only needs to sign a few legal papers to start receiving $179,000 from the state and become the first wrongfully convicted person compensated under a new Florida law. ...more

November 2, 2009

A wrongfully convicted man set to receive $179,000 from the state says he won't sign the compensation documents. ...more

November 1, 2009

Fingerprints found after a violent convenience store robbery in Gulfport may help police. ...more

December 24, 2008

Three young boys witnessed the shooting Monday of two clerks – one their father and the other their uncle – during a convenience-store robbery in Gulfport, police said. ...more

December 23, 2008

Allen J. Crotzer, the former St. Petersburg resident who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, received pardons from the state today for convictions armed robbery as well as for selling drugs in prison. ...more

October 21, 2008

A second person shot in a convenience store robbery Sunday has died, police said. ...more

August 21, 2008

A second person shot in a convenience store robbery Sunday has died, St. Petersburg police say. Ronald Hayworth, a 50-year-old transient who was a customer in the store, died at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said. ...more

August 20, 2008

An inmate at Orient Road Jail died Thursday night at Tampa General Hospital after he was found hanging by a bedsheet in his cell, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said today. Tampa police arrested Harold Drier, 42, of Tampa, shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday in connection with a recent convenience store robbery. Drier was charged with felony armed robbery, records show. ...more

May 30, 2008