Jury selection began this morning in the first-degree murder trial of Carl Roland, a sometime computer salesman who gained notoriety for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta while fleeing Pinellas authorities. ...more

February 10, 2009

A 48-year-old St. Petersburg man was sentenced to life in prison today for drug and firearms charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. ...more

February 6, 2009

With Creative Loafing stuck in bankruptcy, a rival Atlanta weekly newspaper is pushing into the Tampa market, planning a local expansion and hoping to buy the six-newspaper Creative Loafing chain out of bankruptcy court. ...more

February 6, 2009

A Daytona Beach man was arrested Wednesday in a December crash in Pinellas Park that left one of his passengers dead, and which involved a St. Petersburg Times delivery truck. ...more

February 5, 2009

A prosecutor said this morning she is seeking the maximum penalty — five years in prison — for David William Earley, who is a quarter million dollars behind in child support and spent the past 18 months as a fugitive. ...more

February 4, 2009

A person close to Britney Spears says the singer has obtained a restraining order against former pal Osama "Sam" Lutfi and one-time boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. ...more

January 30, 2009

A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Lutz man accused of growing marijuana in his home, finding that state troopers illegally searched the home after a traffic stop. ...more

January 29, 2009

A convicted killer and sex offender from Manatee County was fatally shot in St. Petersburg last week. ...more

January 27, 2009

Debi Joy Olson freely admits she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a Davenport mall. ...more

January 26, 2009

For two years, Pasco detectives have searched for a fourth suspect in a rape case in which a woman was held at gunpoint and repeatedly assaulted for three days. ...more

January 23, 2009