Jordan Valdez, the Davis Islands teenager charged in the hit-and-run death of a homeless woman, was sentenced today to probation and 250 hours of community service. Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe decided the 17-year-old should be sentenced as a juvenile. ...more

November 24, 2009

The family of a woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver is hoping the teenager will get prison. ...more

November 24, 2009

Police executed a search warrant at a Fifth Street home early Thursday morning and say they found a woman sitting fully clothed on a just-flushed toilet before charging her with drug and weapons counts. ...more

November 14, 2009

The outcry over Florida's mortgage brokering scandal has fueled tough new talk about keeping felons out of the business, no matter what crime they committed. ...more

August 11, 2008

The Outcry over Florida's mortgage brokering scandal has fueled tough new talk about keeping felons out of the business – no matter what crime they committed. ...more

August 1, 2008

Those who knew Duke Gray described his life as one marked by kindness and compassion. ...more

May 21, 2008

Murder defendant Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, asking a jury to believe his account of John Benjamin's slaying over those of prosecution witnesses. ...more

December 14, 2007

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the shooting death of Jose Godineaux, 22. Godineaux was shot once in the head about 7 p.m. Friday in the St. James Street apartment he shared with his girlfriend. He was flown to a St. Petersburg hospital and pronounced dead Saturday morning. ...more

November 15, 2007

A man accused of beating his girlfriend into a coma had nothing in his background to prohibit him from working as a janitor at Blake High School, a school district spokesman said. ...more

October 17, 2007

Jenny McCarthy worried about finding a good man after her son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism two years ago. Then Jim Carrey came along. ...more

September 22, 2007