A reservist from the Army Reserve Center in Pinellas Park spotted a possible explosive device this morning while jogging along Grand Avenue just south of the center, but investigators have since determined it wasn't a threat, police say. The roughly 8-inch metal pipe had wires and green tape, a Pinellas Park Police Department news release states. ...more

August 10, 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 78-year-old Pinellas Park man was reporting missing this morning, Pinellas Park police said. ...more

February 4, 2009

In the days of old, if a woman told a dispatcher she had been raped in Clearwater, and the dispatcher realized the crime occurred outside the city's boundaries, the woman would be given a telephone number to call. ...more

February 2, 2009

Pinellas County officials are investigating a series of related arsons that include someone tossing a Molotov cocktail. ...more

January 19, 2009

Former Zephyrhills Police Chief Russell Barnes, who resigned amid a payroll scandal in August, has applied for a job as a patrol deputy with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 15, 2009

Former Zephyrhills Police Chief Russell Barnes, who resigned amid a payroll scandal in August, has applied for a job as a patrol deputy with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Barnes, 56, applied online for the job in December. "We don't comment on applicants," sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said. Barnes did not return a message seeking comment. He resigned from the Zephyrhills force in August, about an hour before the city council was to decide whether to fire him. He was hired in November 2003. ...more

January 14, 2009

Yet another e-mail has surfaced from someone claiming to be an assassin hired to kill the e-mail recipient. However, the writer is willing to forgo the hit if the e-mail recipient agrees to pay him off. ...more

January 8, 2009

A high-profile Pinellas Park murder investigation is the subject of a television show airing on the Oxygen cable channel Thursday night. ...more

January 6, 2009

Alcohol might have been a factor in a fatal automobile accident in Pinellas Park early this morning, according to the Pinellas Park Police Department. ...more

December 1, 2008