TAMPA - A public memorial service for longtime radio newsman Don Richards will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Good Samaritan Lutheran Church at 6085 Park Blvd. in Pinellas Park. ...more

June 27, 2008

Don Richards spent more than 40 years in radio, but became best known for his controversial on-air interview with police killer Hank Earl Carr, who was holding a hostage at gunpoint. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA -- Don Richards spent more than 40 years in radio but became best known for his controversial on-air interview with police killer Hank Earl Carr, who was holding a hostage at gunpoint. News critics lambasted Richards, saying he had crossed the line of journalistic ethics. But his supervisor said Richards simply got caught in a situation he couldn't get out of when he unknowingly dialed the very business where Carr was holed up almost exactly 10 years ago. ...more

June 6, 2008