Judge Michael Hunter has granted Leon Davis' motion to dismiss his standby counsel, Stephen Fisher, in a pair of cases involving five slayings. ...more

November 20, 2008

Boo-Hoo-Hoo Now we have "Daddy" (Chris Kingsley) crying to the newspaper and referring to people who wrote letters against his daughter's letter as "whackos." ...more

November 14, 2008

Since 1998, Highlands County's population has grown from 80,500 to around 99,000. ...more

October 26, 2008

Hernando County sheriff's deputies arrested today three people they say were involved in Brooksville bank robbery and may be connected to an attempted bank robbery in Temple Terrace.. ...more

October 14, 2008

Figures lie and liars figure, goes the saying. It was ever thus, since the invention of the statistic. Luckily, that history-shaping development almost certainly sparked the skepticism gene to life, energizing our hubris detector. ...more

October 12, 2008

Clearwater police say a couple of black men are preying on Hispanics. Since January, there have been at least 45 robbery incidents in which Hispanics have been targeted, city officials say. Few arrests have been made, and police are seeing a resurgence of the trend, city officials say. ...more

October 10, 2008

Police charged four men in two similar robberies on Tuesday, one involving a 12-year-old boy, records show. ...more

October 8, 2008

Police released photos this morning of a déjà vu bank bandit – a bearded man they say has worn the same clothes while robbing three branches of the Fifth Third Bank since June. ...more

September 26, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are investigating a twist on an old robbery scam, this one involving thieves claiming they were hired to remove poisonous snakes from a homeowner's property. ...more

September 26, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are investigating a twist in an old robbery scam that involves thieves approaching homeowners and telling them they were hired to remove poisonous snakes on the residents' property, authorities said. ...more

September 25, 2008