AVON PARK — On Sept. 26, Luther Tyrone Golliday was gunned down in the parking lot of a BP gas station, located at 835 W. Memorial Blvd., in Lakeland. He was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where Golliday was pronounced dead at age 24. An Avon Park man, James Walter Blackwell III, 20, of 904 S. Florida Ave., was arrested Friday after a grand jury in Polk County indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Golliday. ...more

December 12, 2007

These days, lots of important decisions about your life are being made in Tallahassee. ...more

November 25, 2007

These days, lots of important decisions about your life are being made in Tallahassee. How much property tax you will pay, what kind of insurance you can buy, whether public education and health care will be funded adequately. Increasingly, however, these decisions are being made in private, without the scrutiny of the public and the media. ...more

November 24, 2007

An oversight agency of the Legislature questioned the methodology behind an audit of the Tampa Police Department's crime statistics but has found no evidence police underreported crimes to drop the city's rate. ...more

September 20, 2007

TAMPA - An oversight agency of the Legislature questioned the methodology behind an audit of the Tampa Police Department's crime statistics but has found no evidence police underreported crimes to drop the city's rate. ...more

September 19, 2007