With the city's crime rate plummeting the past six years - and the police department on pace for an 18 percent decrease this year - maintaining that trend could prove difficult. ...more

October 23, 2009

With the city's crime rate plummeting over the past six years – and the police department on pace for an 18 percent decrease this year – maintaining that trend could prove difficult. ...more

October 22, 2009

Five men who were arrested last year at the same time as John "Junior" Gotti will join him in New York after a judge today ordered their trial to take place there. ...more

March 3, 2009

Ron Grimming, 63, has three things in common with his opponent: he was a state trooper, he taught at Miami-Dade College, and he's spent 33 years as a career law enforcement officer. Grimming moved to Lake Placid three years ago. ...more

October 12, 2008

A Brooksville man accused of crashing a stolen truck into a deputy's patrol car in March was indicted Wednesday on charges of drug and gun trafficking, the U.S. attorney's office said. ...more

October 1, 2008

Decriminalize Drugs Regarding "Semi-Subs, Used To Carry Drugs, May Be Outlawed" (Metro, June 27): ...more

July 3, 2008

Worthy Of Support Regarding "A Place For Kids To Be Safe, Together" (Our Opinion, June 23): ...more

June 27, 2008

Walking on the wrong side of the road in this city might get you stopped by the police. Not using a sidewalk might draw police attention, too. A day after Bradenton police confronted a teenager and accused him of walking on the wrong side of the road, an officer stopped a man early Wednesday, saying he was not using a sidewalk in the 1300 block of 21st Avenue West. ...more

May 22, 2008

When was the last time the U.S. Congress and any president passed major laws that truly helped the American people? It wasn't tax cuts for wealthy people, nor was it the prescription drug law that was a boon to pharmaceutical companies who bought, paid for and even wrote the legislation. No, not much has happened since the Civil Rights movement that was fundamentally right for the people. ...more

December 6, 2007

Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats has been named to a statewide committee targeting illicit drug sales and serious violent crime. ...more

September 12, 2007