Mildred Loving, 68, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. ...more

May 6, 2008

Brian Gomes did not kill Marc Collins. So said a jury early Wednesday evening through a verdict that only punished Gomes, 26, for the events leading up to a fatal wreck. ...more

February 20, 2008

TAMPA - A Largo woman was charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty after deputies found 17 dogs living in their own waste in her deteriorating home, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 19, 2008

KEY WEST - Wildlife officials are investigating the killings of several endangered Key deer, the tiny deer that live exclusively in the Florida Keys. ...more

January 23, 2008

Local tavern owner and political observer Mike Agnello has entered the Dade City commission race, filing paperwork to run for the seat occupied by City Commissioner Eunice Penix. ...more

January 16, 2008

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Country singer Mindy McCready is free after serving jail time for a probation violation. ...more

December 31, 2007

Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons star who has traded his No. 7 jersey for a black-and-white-striped jail uniform, stood expressionless in a federal courtroom on Monday and apologized to the court and his family for his involvement in a dogfighting ring. But for the judge about to decide Vick's fate, those words were not enough. ...more

December 11, 2007

Most Americans feel compassionate about anyone facing foreclosure. Witnessing more than a million people staring down foreclosure due to home mortgages leaves all us wanting to save people from this sad situation. But before we spend billions in taxpayer dollars for a bailout, we need to consider how this happened in the first place. When we do that, we'll see that most of the people losing their houses never should have qualified for a home loan in the first place, and that predatory lenders are to blame for most of this mess. The Bush administration reached a deal with mortgage bankers to freeze interest rates on some sub-prime mortgages for five years. Other limitations apply, and only about 225,000 people will benefit from it. In fact, it's fair to say that if these homeowners are already in trouble, freezing interest rates won't help much – if at all. ...more

December 9, 2007

The threat of jail time injected a little motivation into scores of parents who lined up around the courthouse Saturday to get their children vaccinated on the spot or prove they had already had the shots. ...more

November 18, 2007

In 2006, St. Petersburg police thought a newspaper delivery man was fatally shot during a violent home invasion above his apartment. ...more

November 16, 2007