The owner of a funeral home who was directed by the state last week to bring her embalming operations to a halt is holding a press conference this afternoon. ...more

January 28, 2009

Responding to complaints from two families, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has ordered a St. Petersburg funeral home to immediately cease any services involving embalming or refrigeration. Sink issued the order last week against the Morning Glory Funeral Chapel of St. Petersburg, 3301 5th Ave. S. ...more

January 26, 2009

Prosecutors thought they had a solid drug trafficking case against Jose Miguel Rosales, 40, until they discovered problems with the evidence taken from his home. ...more

November 20, 2008

For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room - made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave - the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water. ...more

August 2, 2008

Lost Without The GPS This past weekend, the PW and I spent an awful amount of time learning how to get around on the streets of an unfamiliar location without our navigation device. We were in the Ellenton area where the tanker truck destroyed the bridge over State Road 301 on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 last week. Our motel was located in the Prime Outlets Mall area, within a half mile of the accident. Thank goodness we had a few friends who were familiar with the area and gave us maps to use to get around most of the congestion. Even so, it was impossible not to get into some standstill traffic jams. But before we left Sunday morning, the authorities had devised routes and some rerouting of traffic, which made traffic flow almost normally. ...more

June 12, 2008