Friends and former students of Jesuit's longest-serving president, Father Joseph Doyle, expressed their feelings about him in postings to TBO.com following his death. ...more

December 17, 2008

She's no bigger than half the children in the room. But Carol Abbott has a voice that commands attention. ...more

November 22, 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

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker and five other public officials released an open letter to the community this morning asking for peace after the shooting death of 17-year-old Javon Dawson and urging any witnesses to come forward. ...more

August 11, 2008

CLEARWATER - An attorney for the family of Javon Dawson says she has presented several witnesses to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office, and that all of them say the teenager was unarmed before and when he was fatally shot by a St. Petersburg police officer. ...more

July 1, 2008

One day after police complained of no civilian witnesses in the police shooting of 17-year-old Javon Dawson, a black activist group typically opposed to police says it knows of some, but the witnesses will talk to authorities only with a lawyer present. ...more

June 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — One day after police complained of no civilian witnesses in the police shooting of 17-year-old Javon Dawson, a black activist group says it knows of some, but they will talk to authorities only with a lawyer present. At a press conference today, Omali Yeshitela, leader of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, said the witnesses, who he described as children, were traumatized by the event. ...more

June 12, 2008

And just what exactly did Omali Yeshitela, St. Petersburg's official village blowhard, expect police Officer Terrence Nemeth to do Saturday night as he confronted a teenager who had been firing a weapon into the air. ...more

June 12, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — Though he had had no brushes with the law before a police officer fatally shot him this weekend, Javon Dawson had taken on the persona of a street thug on his MySpace page. On Saturday night, Dawson, 17, was spotted firing a gun into the air outside the Shining Light Masonic Lodge, where there was a graduation party. He got into a confrontation with St. Petersburg police officer Terrence Nemeth, with Nemeth telling him to put down the weapon, and Dawson running off, pointing his gun at Nemeth as he fled before Nemeth fired. ...more

June 10, 2008