President Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave an assessment Thursday of his former congregant's short time in the White House: Obama is just like any other president. ...more

March 6, 2009

St. Petersburg police have arrested a man they say likely was responsible for a series of eight burglaries at seven St. Petersburg churches. ...more

December 18, 2008

A 78-year-old mental health therapist faces up to life in prison after being convicted Tuesday of a federal charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

December 17, 2008

This time of year it's not unusual to turn to a church for help, but St. Petersburg police say burglars are targeting churches for fast cash. ...more

December 16, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama definitely is patriotic and not a Muslim. ...more

August 11, 2008

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife. ...more

June 13, 2008

A self-identified African-American caller to a Washington, D.C., radio station characterized the recent anti-Hillary Clinton outburst by the white liberal Chicago priest, Michael Pfleger, as a "minstrel show." ...more

June 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his wife, Michelle, announced Saturday they would leave their longtime Chicago church, Trinity United Church of Christ, after racially charged comments by a visiting pastor last week dragged the presidential candidate into yet another controversy over religion and race. ...more

June 1, 2008

Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." ...more

May 31, 2008

"Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever." ...more

May 7, 2008