Clearwater FL

Smack in the middle of a card table set up in the far corner of the Heritage Village parking lot is a gigantic, fully-feathered chicken head. The head is four feet tall, and it looks angry. It looks like the rooster from hell. Which is entirely appropriate, because said head...

James Farthing, a former convict who won $167.5 million in Kentucky's Power Ball, has plead guilty of assaulting a police officer while celebrating in Florida. Farthing, from Georgetown, Kentucky, was arrested at the Island Grand in St. Petersburg last May, just days after learning his Power Ball ticket was a winner.

GEICO is taking aim at three Florida clinics it says operated a coordinated PIP fraud scheme worth more than $3.7 million. The insurer filed suit on March 13 in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, naming ten defendants across three Tampa-area clinics - Relief and Rehab, Inc. f/k/a Del Sol Care &...

ST. PETERSBURG — Mary Ann Buckingham never had a driver's license. For 35 years, she walked through the Five Towns community with a push stroller to buy her groceries at the Publix next door. She died last year at 84. On the night of March 7, her family was the last to check out. The store closed for good behind them.

Florida’s coastal towns hide some seriously incredible pizza spots that never make it onto the tourist maps. Locals guard these places like treasures, slipping in for a slice while visitors flock to chain restaurants nearby. From the historic streets of St. Augustine to the laid-back shores of the Florida...

Deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrested 35-year-old Christopher Howard after a 7-year-old Chihuahua mix named Sheba was found dead outside his home in West Lealman. Investigators say Howard became angry when the dog entered a bedroom and allegedly kicked, threw and hit the animal with a chair....

FLORIDA — A Citrus Park man was arrested on drug-related charges late Saturday night after a police officer fired a gunshot during a foot chase in Tampa’s Hyde Park area, authorities said. According to the Tampa Police Department, the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. near the 400 block of South Albany Avenue....

Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press) PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A massive law enforcement “Wolf...

The Florida Highway Patrol says eight people were seriously injured and ejected after a golf cart overturned during a crash with a car in Wesley Chapel. Troopers say the golf cart driver tried to make a U-turn on Elam Road and was hit by a Honda sedan driven by a 17-year-old girl.

After roughly 15 years at the helm of the Duke Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg, private operator Bill Edwards is stepping down in May, and the venue’s future leadership is suddenly looking wobbly. City officials put the theater’s management out for competitive bids, but only...