Deputies arrested a couple Thursday they say wore motorcycle helmets and carried handguns when they robbed a Tampa pharmacy of OxyContin in May. ...more

July 11, 2008

With a dresser drawer attached to her wrist by handcuffs, Norma Neumann stepped outside her mobile home Thursday and spotted a neighbor. ...more

July 11, 2008

HUDSON - Pasco County deputies are looking for four men who broke into a home just before noon today, stole guns, ammunition and other valuables and handcuffed one occupant, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

July 10, 2008

The Supreme Court has spoken: Thanks to the court's blockbuster 5-to-4 decision, Washingtonians now have the right to own a gun for self-defense. I leave the law to lawyers, but the public health lesson is crystal clear: The legal ruling that the citizens of Washington, D.C., can keep loaded handguns in their homes doesn't mean that they should. ...more

July 8, 2008

John McCain welcomed a Supreme Court decision invalidating a District of Columbia handgun ban. Barack Obama sought to straddle the subject by saying he favors an individual's right to bear firearms as well as a government's right to regulate them. ...more

June 27, 2008

The individual right to bear arms identified by the Supreme Court on Thursday will have little practical impact in most of the country, legal experts said, though Washington's comprehensive ban on handguns used for self-defense in the home will have to be revised, and similar laws in several cities are also vulnerable. ...more

June 27, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact. ...more

June 26, 2008

Got guns? Short of cash to fill your gas tank or tummy? Well, you might be in luck. ...more

June 26, 2008

TAMPA - A 51-year-old Manatee County woman was shot during a home invasion last night, authorities said. ...more

June 21, 2008

One momentous case down, another equally historic decision to go. The Supreme Court returns to the bench today with 17 cases still unresolved, including its first-ever comprehensive look at the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. ...more

June 16, 2008