LARGO - Twenty-five Pinellas sheriff's deputies are to lose their jobs as of Aug. 8, but all they have to do to land a job elsewhere is look across Tampa Bay. ...more

July 10, 2008

PALM HARBOR -- Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats received spirited questioning by former deputies and local residents Thursday night over his plan to eliminate special patrol units to save money. The sheriff presented his case for the 10 percent spending reduction at a town hall meeting held by the Palm Harbor Coalition, a group that is exploring turning the Palm Harbor area into a city. ...more

June 27, 2008

CLEARWATER - To cut $25 million from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office budget, the agency may have to eliminate its DUI squad, Sheriff Jim Coats said today. ...more

June 23, 2008

Pinellas County Clerk of Court Ken Burke, Tax Collector Diane Nelson and County Commissioner Ken Welch faced no challengers as Friday's deadline passed at noon in the weeklong candidate qualifying period. ...more

June 21, 2008

CLEARWATER -- Pinellas County Clerk of Court Ken Burke, Tax Collector Diane Nelson and County Commissioner Ken Welch faced no challengers as today's deadline passed at noon in the weeklong candidate qualifying period. ...more

June 20, 2008

When Florida sheriff's offices began investigating child abuse cases for the state in 1999, some sheriffs warned the switch would work only if the Legislature gave departments enough money to do the job right. ...more

June 15, 2008

PALM HARBOR -- The impact of proposed county budget cuts on Sheriff's Office services to Palm Harbor, Ozona and Crystal Beach and how successful a second attempt at turning the area into a city are scheduled to be discussed at two Palm Harbor Community Coalition town meetings slated for later this month. ...more

June 14, 2008

Nick Bollea was moved Thursday from an isolated cell to another part of the Pinellas County Jail occupied by teenage inmates and which includes a television. ...more

June 6, 2008

CLEARWATER — Nick Bollea was moved today from an isolated cell to a special pod occupied by other teenage inmates, where he has access to a television and a telephone, Pinellas County sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda has confirmed. ...more

June 5, 2008

CLEARWATER - Nick Bollea's attorneys may have failed at getting him transferred out of his solitary cell, but they succeeded in stopping Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats from releasing any more audio recordings of Bollea's visits at the jail with his family – for now. ...more

June 4, 2008