An 18-year-old St. Petersburg man who has been charged in three robberies – in one of them his parents are accused of being the getaway drivers – is now charged with fatally shooting a man. ...more

January 23, 2009

A 41-year-old woman was arrested on a charge of bigamy Thursday, according to court records and police. ...more

January 23, 2009

A mentally-troubled man was arrested Tuesday after he attacked a woman who tried to stop him from hurting himself, according to Largo police records. ...more

January 21, 2009

A 21-year-old man is being held at the Pinellas County Jail this morning, accused of molesting a 12-year-old Clearwater girl after following her from a bus stop, records show. ...more

January 20, 2009

A Clearwater man was arrested Sunday night on charges he struck his girlfriend across the forehead with a samurai sword. ...more

January 19, 2009

A Pinellas-Pasco circuit judge has replaced the receiver assigned earlier this week to oversee the downtown BayWalk entertainment complex, which is the subject of a foreclosure action. Hunter Swearingen of Ciminelli Real Estate Services is the new receiver and property manager, appointed Friday afternoon by Circuit Judge Thomas McGrady. Swearingen replaces Howard Rosenthal, the initial appointee, who on Thursday was booked at the Pinellas County Jail on a grand theft charge involving an accusation he stole nearly $171,000 from his former employer, Colliers Arnold Real Estate. ...more

January 16, 2009

A 52-year-old man faces child pornography charges after being arrested early this morning at his Largo apartment complex. ...more

January 16, 2009

A federal office building in downtown Tampa was evacuated this afternoon when a suspicious package was found in the mailroom, authorities say. Seventy-five people working in the building, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services workers, were evacuated about 1:45 p.m., Tampa Fire Rescue Capt. Bill Wade said in a written statement. ...more

January 15, 2009

When ambulance crews rolled up on the aftermath of a violent car wreck nearly three years ago, they found taxi driver John Kelly dead, his body partially ejected from his cab. ...more

January 15, 2009

A sometime air conditioning technician was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for a Nov. 17, 2007, wreck that killed his wife, who was a passenger. ...more

January 5, 2009