TAMPA - Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. "I'm having vehicles exploding all around me at this time," he said frantically near the end of the transmission recorded that morning and released by the sheriff's office on Friday. ...more

January 12, 2008

Pay-As-You-Go System Of Taxation The Fairest Save Our Homes is an unfair system and is probably unconstitutional. Whereas the milder unfairness of yesteryears didn't have the momentum or visibility to bring this fact to light, there is now ample evidence of this. ...more

January 9, 2008

A fire that destroyed a $900,000 home Monday apparently started when the occupant walked away from a barbecue grill after turning up the burners to clean it. ...more

December 11, 2007

Deputies are looking for two men who kicked in the door of a Lake Wales home, pistol-whipped an occupant and then fled. ...more

December 7, 2007

Dale Gottschalk of Hudson says Iraq invasion had nothing to do with terrorism. ...more

November 24, 2007

A Pasco County library courier was honored recently for helping a resident escape from a house in flames. ...more

October 3, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - An armed man pushed his way into a home Saturday afternoon, struck the male occupant with a handgun and robbed him of his wallet and cash, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 22, 2007