With Creative Loafing stuck in bankruptcy, a rival Atlanta weekly newspaper is pushing into the Tampa market, planning a local expansion and hoping to buy the six-newspaper Creative Loafing chain out of bankruptcy court. ...more

February 6, 2009

A Daytona Beach man was arrested Wednesday in a December crash in Pinellas Park that left one of his passengers dead, and which involved a St. Petersburg Times delivery truck. ...more

February 5, 2009

A prosecutor said this morning she is seeking the maximum penalty — five years in prison — for David William Earley, who is a quarter million dollars behind in child support and spent the past 18 months as a fugitive. ...more

February 4, 2009

A person close to Britney Spears says the singer has obtained a restraining order against former pal Osama "Sam" Lutfi and one-time boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. ...more

January 30, 2009

A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Lutz man accused of growing marijuana in his home, finding that state troopers illegally searched the home after a traffic stop. ...more

January 29, 2009

A convicted killer and sex offender from Manatee County was fatally shot in St. Petersburg last week. ...more

January 27, 2009

Debi Joy Olson freely admits she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a Davenport mall. ...more

January 26, 2009

For two years, Pasco detectives have searched for a fourth suspect in a rape case in which a woman was held at gunpoint and repeatedly assaulted for three days. ...more

January 23, 2009

A 41-year-old woman was arrested on a charge of bigamy Thursday, according to court records and police. ...more

January 23, 2009

A local man was found guilty this week by a Highlands County jury on two counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age. ...more

January 18, 2009