Florida business groups want a new law allowing workers to keep guns locked in their cars to be stopped from taking effect until a legal challenge is settled. ...more

May 23, 2008

PALM HARBOR - Pinellas Sheriff's narcotics detectives swooped down on a Palm Harbor house Tuesday morning that they said was being used to grow hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of marijuana. ...more

February 19, 2008

Take The Guns Away Regarding "Gunman Opens Fire On Class, Killing 5" (front page, Feb. 15): ...more

February 19, 2008

The answers may lie within the black Converse shoes. A 62-year-old man told the Pasco County Sheriff's Office that someone broke in to his home early Sunday, and more than a dozen weapons, including a samurai sword and firearms, were stolen. ...more

February 19, 2008

All creatures, big and small share the world around us, trying to live in harmony with each other. Man, being the dominant "creature," at times takes liberty to kill without provocation, thus exerting his power over nature, while exhibiting the worst in man. An example of this dominance was reported recently in this newspaper, when two men used a combination of .22 caliber and .45 caliber guns to kill a rattlesnake found in a backyard. The snake, minding its own business, was probably seeking the warmth of the sun in order to reach "operating temperature." When approached and threatened by the humans, the snake assumed a defensive posture as it coiled and moved its head from side to side; saying in effect, "leave me alone, go away, I do not want to harm you." Unfortunately for the snake, the humans did not wish to admire this creature for its beauty and place in ecology, but wished to destroy this perceived threat to "children, dogs and cats that might be in the area." ...more

February 8, 2008

Paul Kallenbach was so angry after a fatal gunfight at the Kwik Stop that after firing a number of rounds outside the convenience store, he took one last shot at a motorist, police said. ...more

February 7, 2008

A skyrocketing number of applications for concealed weapons licenses has hindered the state agency that screens people for the documents from, at times, suspending or revoking the permits in a timely manner, according to a state audit released this week. ...more

December 21, 2007

HOLIDAY - Deputies shot a man twice when he wouldn't show his hands after they responded to a fight Sunday night at Buena Vista Trailer Park, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 10, 2007

A Tampa man shot his roommate in the chest, pointed the gun at a teenager's head and then ran off Saturday night, Pasco County deputies said Sunday. ...more

December 3, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man shot his roommate in the chest, pointed the gun at a teenager's head and fled on foot last night, Pasco County deputies said this morning. ...more

December 2, 2007