Three men are in custody on charges they robbed a dry cleaning business in St. Pete Beach on Wednesday after throwing a woman clerk into the bathroom. The suspects are Larry Ellison, 49, of St. Petersburg; Norman Davis, 35, of St. Petersburg; and Sheldon Jackson, 33, of St. Petersburg. ...more

September 10, 2009

The last memory Bill Prior has of the USS Casco is of his doomed young shipmate. ...more

January 31, 2009

Pinellas sheriff's detectives are crediting a high-tech fingerprint identification system and media coverage for the arrest of a man they believe burglarized an Oldsmar dry-cleaning business on Christmas Day. ...more

January 8, 2008

A quarter-century has elapsed since the United States experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal injections. ...more

January 7, 2008

SEBRING — Dan Feathers has raised prices at his dry cleaning business and so has florist Ladonna Paedae-Rodriguez. Kenny Long, president of Long's Air Conditioning Inc., might have to do the same thing. Local businesses are feeling the impact of higher gas prices and are trying to find ways to keep costs down. According to the American Automobile Association, motorists are paying about 90 cents a gallon more for gas now than they did last year. Guy Caruso, chief of the Energy Department's statistical division, the Energy Information Administration, predicted recently that gasoline prices, now averaging $3.11 a gallon nationwide, will rise another 10 cents by December. A jump of 15 cents a gallon from current levels, already well above last year's average of $2.23, also would surpass May's all-time record of $3.23 a gallon. ...more

November 25, 2007