A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

What Has County Come To? So, the witch hunt actually begins. Interim County Administrator Larry Jennings has suspended 10-year veteran Human Resources Director Barbara Dupre for five days without pay for making "unsubstantiated accusations" against Diane Rowden. Unsubstantiated. Not disproved. I thought we had freedom of speech in this country? We may never find out who truly is responsible for breaking into Barbara's office, but I bet Jay Rowden could shed some light on this. Barbara Dupre can no longer participate in the selection of our next county administrator, just as Diane Rowden wanted in the first place. Isn't it strange how that worked out? By the way, what is Jay Rowden's position within the Democratic Party? ...more

January 16, 2008

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County park ranger pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography. ...more

December 20, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man is being held without bail in Lake County after investigators there said he traveled to Clermont for sex with a 7-year-old girl and her mother. Neither the child nor her 32-year-old mother exists. The mother was an online persona adopted by a Lake County Sheriff's Office detective communicating via the Internet with the man, Kenneth Gene Miller, 51. ...more

December 14, 2007

Those who shopped Saturday at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office were looking for very specific items - their own. ...more

December 9, 2007

TAMPA - A prosecution court filing provides new details of a videotape the government says was made by a University of South Florida student and posted to the Web site YouTube. ...more

November 21, 2007

TAMPA – A University of South Florida student charged with illegally transporting explosives wants his case to be tried separately from a fellow student, who also is accused of trying to help terrorists. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - Federal prosecutors have decided not to retry a Palm Harbor man after a judge overturned his conviction on sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl on an airplane. ...more

October 15, 2007

TAMPA - Sheriff's office investigators are looking for four men who broke into an apartment late Monday and pistol-whipped two men before stealing a laptop computer and cell phone. ...more

October 9, 2007