A woman arrested in the shooting death of actor Mark Ruffalo's younger brother was cleared of wrongdoing and released after police were shown evidence that the wound was self-inflicted, her attorney said Wednesday. ...more

December 10, 2008

A man who crashed a sport utility vehicle into a Clearwater police cruiser before leading police on a chase eventually was found hiding behind a big-screen TV, police say. ...more

December 9, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG The woman killed Thursday afternoon when a tire blew out on her sport utility vehicle on Interstate 275 has been identified as Sabrina Caryl Starliper, 21, of Mercersburg, Pa., according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Starliper was driving a 1998 Ford SUV north on the interstate, just south of 54th Avenue North, when the left rear tire blew, the patrol said. She lost control of the vehicle, and it spun, went down an embankment and flipped over, the patrol said. ...more

December 5, 2008

A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 5, 2008

Passers-by lifted a sport utility vehicle off a driver after it rolled over in St. Petersburg this afternoon, police say. The driver later died. ...more

December 4, 2008

A 4-year-old Brandon girl is on a long road to recovery from the crash that killed her mother, and her grandmother thinks she'll be walking by February, beating therapists' expectations. ...more

December 4, 2008

A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 3, 2008

Detroit's automakers are making a second bid for $25 billion in congressional funding this week. CEOs from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who were criticized last month for traveling to Washington separately by private jets and faced pointed questions about their salaries, are seeking to defuse those issues. ...more

December 3, 2008

Police arrested William Balfour, the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson, on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation. ...more

December 1, 2008

Two people on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were killed this afternoon when a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, traveling the wrong direction, hit them head-on, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

November 29, 2008