Shawn Lonsdale, who became one of the most bedeviling local critics of the Church of Scientology, died of an apparent suicide at his Clearwater home this past weekend. He was 39. ...more

February 20, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Onetime NFL linebacker Darren Hambrick is in legal hot water again just weeks after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery charges in a deal that included anger management classes. ...more

February 18, 2008

Wildlife officers arrested two Bradenton men early Thursday morning on charges they were using an illegal gill net near the mouth of the Manatee River. ...more

February 15, 2008

It's time to move Steve Mariucci from "maybe" to "definite" on the list of Washington Redskins coaching candidates. ...more

February 1, 2008

Two Penn State players charged with assault in connection with a campus fight will miss the Alamo Bowl. ...more

December 27, 2007

As the Christmas season approaches, patrons at the Sail Inn bar have to pay up if they let the mother of all curse words slip off their tongues. ...more

December 19, 2007

Fallen "American Idol" star Jessica Sierra stood in a courtroom Thursday morning, trying in vain to cover the worried look on her face with her long brown hair. ...more

December 7, 2007

TAMPA - Fallen "American Idol" star Jessica Sierra stood in the courtroom this morning, her long brown hair covering the worried look on her face. Her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, told Circuit Judge Daniel Perry that he wasn't ready to directly address the charges against Sierra but would enter a plea of not guilty on her behalf to charges of disorderly intoxication and misdemeanor resisting an officer without violence. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Three years ago, news reports described how Chamberlain High School wide receiver Cody Overby ended his senior season limping off the field with a sore knee, a taped ankle and a shoulder that had popped out of joint. Today, Overby is in the news for a different reason: Hillsborough County deputies arrested him Tuesday in the strong-arm robbery of $13,000 from a prison minister outside a Carrollwood bank. ...more

November 21, 2007

Surreptitiously videotaping underage girls changing into their swimsuits is not a felony under Florida law, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

November 16, 2007