The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge. ...more

November 6, 2009

Pinellas landlord Lawrence Ayers was given a choice this morning: clean and fix the three condemned rental properties he owns in Clearwater or pay fines of up to $3,800 a day. ...more

July 13, 2009

The 53-year-old man found at Philippe Park this morning with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head has died, the Pinellas Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 10, 2009

A get-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man hit another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. ...more

March 31, 2009

Aget-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man smashed another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. According to the report, Derick D. Schexnayder's mother, not named in the report, invited Curtis Andrew Osborne, 49, to Schexnayder's home at 8528 Bolton Ave., Hudson, early Sunday, but Schexnayder later told Osborne to leave around 1 a.m. ...more

March 30, 2009

A shelter for abused homeless women will establish a fund to reimburse women there who said they were swindled by an employee. ...more

February 27, 2009

For years, Rosemarie Sherwood acted as a house mother and adviser to abused homeless women, teaching them skills like saving and budgeting money so they could survive on their own. ...more

February 26, 2009

The director of Hillsborough County's jails has opened a formal inquiry to review how an inmate was released for a few hours Wednesday on a paperwork error. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Col. Jim Previtera said today he wants to know "whether there was any error on our part" regarding the release of Lawrence Campanello, 50. ...more

January 2, 2009

When Rhonda Fountain walked in from work Christmas Eve and saw the empty space underneath her Christmas tree, she immediately knew what happened. She glanced at her busted up door and she knew: she was a victim of burglars. ...more

December 25, 2008

Chris MacCaron went to visit his sons in police custody Saturday after they and his ex-wife were arrested at his office Christmas party. ...more

December 21, 2008