Inhaling some fuel from the warm Caribbean Sea, Ida strengthened into hurricane late Saturday that is bound for the central Gulf by later this week, where forecasters expect the storm to make a fishhook fairly close to land that would leave it about 170 miles west of Tampa on Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2009

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. ...more

November 16, 2007

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. Mexican authorities who arrested a top financier for the Sinaloa drug cartel uncovered the connection between the cartel and the purchase of two jets that took off from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport on separate dates. One jet was seized, and the other crashed in Mexico. A total of nearly 10 tons of cocaine was found onboard the jets, according to Mexican authorities. ...more

November 15, 2007