On Palm Sunday, Gulf Harbors Yacht Club will stage its 37th annual Blessing of the Fleet. Yacht club officials expect between 35 and 50 boats to participate April 5, according to Barb Bailey, the community relations representative for the yacht club. ...more

March 28, 2009

Gail Manner doesn't understand why the driver who struck her son last summer with a car, killing him, only got a traffic ticket. Alan D. Danks Jr., 25, was cited for careless driving after his into Matthew Manner on June 20 in St. Petersburg. ...more

January 8, 2009

Police say they weren't chasing an 18-year-old pickup driver when she bolted from a traffic stop and crashed, killing a bicyclist then injuring half a dozen others when the truck flipped into a crowd. ...more

October 10, 2008

Investigators continued Thursday to unravel the sequence of events that led to a 14-year-old girl backing her mother's car out of a parking space Wednesday night and then gunning it forward, overreaching her target and killing a 5-year-old boy. ...more

May 30, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Investigators today continued to unravel the sequence of events that led to a 14-year-old girl backing her mother's car out of a parking space Wednesday night, and then gunning it forward, overreaching her mark and killing a 5-year-old boy. Meanwhile, family members of the boy, Kevon Wilson, were making funeral arrangements, and trying to set up a fund to pay for it. They were also planning a vigil at the scene of the accident for tonight at 7. ...more

May 29, 2008

CLEARWATER -- Prosecutors have dropped a drunken driving charge against a man afflicted with muscular dystrophy after the man's urine test came back negative for any illegal substances. Michael Loui, 48, of St. Petersburg, was arrested by a St. Petersburg police officer on March 4. The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office dismissed the charge Wednesday. ...more

May 22, 2008

The ex-wife of a motorist involved in a series of wrecks that left a man critically injured Wednesday is accused of hiding her ex-husband while authorities were looking for him, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

February 16, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The ex-wife of a motorist involved in a series of wrecks that left a man critically injured Wednesday is accused of hiding her ex-husband while authorities were looking for him, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

February 15, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A St. Petersburg man scuttled off on foot after striking two cars with his pickup Wednesday evening, critically injuring one man, and later was seen running away from his ex-wife's house, police say. ...more

February 14, 2008

A 22-year-old motorcyclist died Wednesday morning in a wreck at 30th Avenue North and 49th Street, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

November 22, 2007