A 30-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested this morning on charges he was drunk when his pickup slammed into a car in February, killing the other driver. ...more

September 3, 2008

St. Petersburg police received an anonymous tip Tuesday – that Keon Dawson, the younger brother of Javon Dawson, had a gun on campus at Meadowland Middle School, which Keon Dawson attends. But the information turned out to be false -- and people are angry. ...more

September 3, 2008

A party bus was shot at early Labor Day as it was discharging a group of passengers who had just left Club Underground in Tampa, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

September 2, 2008

A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday night and charged in the robbery and shooting of a woman who eventually died. ...more

August 27, 2008

A convenience store owner shot in the head Sunday during a robbery has died, causing criminal charges against two men charged in his shooting to be upgraded to first-degree murder, police said. ...more

August 19, 2008

Let's cut to the chase right away. Javon Dawson could have been more armed to the teeth than "Rambo" meets "The Wild Bunch" with a trail of bodies rivaling the Russian invasion of Georgia when he was gunned down by the cops and professional phony Omali Yeshitela, St. Petersburg's answer to Jesse Jackson-lite-lite-lite, would still be whining about police brutality. ...more

August 16, 2008

A black activist group is calling on governments to pay millions of dollars in reparations to the families of Javon Dawson and three other black teenagers who have been killed by law enforcement officers. ...more

August 16, 2008

A St. Petersburg police officer was justified when he fatally shot a teenager twice in the back June 7, the state attorney's office said Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office today said a St. Petersburg police officer was justified June 7 when he fatally shot a 17-year-old boy twice in the back. ...more

August 12, 2008

The former property manager of a St. Petersburg condominium complex turned himself in to police today to face charges that include transferring $250,000 to his account and using it as a down payment for a $2.6 million home in Tampa. ...more

August 11, 2008