In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare - a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother - won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life. ...more

January 6, 2010

When people think of teens trying to score beer, many imagine a darkly lit convenience store and a clerk willing to look the other way. ...more

January 3, 2010

Underage alcohol and tobacco sales are highest in Pinellas, among Bay area counties. ...more

December 31, 2009

They say crime doesn't pay, but that has never stopped people from trying, even those who appear to be shackled with less-than-average smarts. ...more

December 30, 2009

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office investigators arrested a Safety Harbor man Tuesday they say molested a boy almost three decades ago. ...more

December 24, 2009

A Florida fugitive who escaped from a work center 30 years ago was finally arrested Saturday - then released on bond Monday. ...more

December 22, 2009

Oscar Richardson, convicted of robbing a Tampa convenience store at gunpoint, escaped from a work release center 30 years ago. Investigators finally captured him Saturday in Missouri, where he has lived under an assumed name for most of the past three decades, according to the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo. ...more

December 21, 2009

Last week, in the trial of one of two men accused of slaying confidential informant Rachel Hoffman, state attorneys questioned some 30 witnesses to paint a picture of Deneilo Bradshaw's actions before and after Hoffman's death. ...more

December 15, 2009

Deneilo Bradshaw flashed a thick wad of $100 bills, ate pizza, had sex with a girlfriend in Orlando and sang a happy song on the night he participated in the slaying of Rachel Hoffman, according to testimony in a Leon County courthouse last week. ...more

December 13, 2009

Mohammad Nasir Uddin had just upgraded the video surveillance system at his convenience store, in all likelihood to enhance the security there in the event he was robbed. ...more

December 8, 2009