Hernando County Briefs ...more

July 1, 2008

PINELLAS PARK Police officers responded to a call of gunfire early this morning, but witnesses said it was just teens setting off fireworks. An hour later a man showed up at an area hospital with gunshot wound he said he got at the initial location. ...more

June 29, 2008

LARGO - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 27, 2008

BRADENTON - Frantic patrons of Peach's screamed, "Oh, my God," as they saw Pamela LeRose being shot to death Saturday outside the restaurant she managed. ...more

June 4, 2008

FEAR AND DINING WITH HUNTER University of Florida journalism professor William McKeen has a new biography of journalist Hunter S. Thompson coming out this summer, "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson." Thompson died in 2005 from a self-inflicted gunshot. ...more

June 4, 2008

BRADENTON — The restaurant where Pamela LeRose was grabbed, taken outside and slain opened on Sunday to memorialize her. ...more

June 2, 2008

BRADENTON — A man grabbed a woman from inside a Peaches restaurant on Cortez Road this morning then took her outside to the parking lot before shooting her dead and later killing himself, authorities said. ...more

May 31, 2008

After residents called about hearing gunshots, Manatee County deputies followed a block-long blood trail, eventually finding a shooting victim passed out in the front yard of a home. ...more

May 18, 2008

Laura Barnes heard a fierce argument coming from next door, but that was not unusual. ...more

May 13, 2008

Booth faces life in prison ...more

May 12, 2008