ST. PETERSBURG - Two men led a hearing-impaired man external a convenience store, where they struck him and took his wallet, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

It happened about 1 p.m. Thursday at the Quick Food and Deli, 7539 46th Ave. N, in unincorporated Pinellas County.

One of…

TAMPA — Deputies have identified a man found dead early today and they sya his death was a murder.

Brett Aaron Coffin, 37, of 7607 Alema Street was found unconscious at  14701 Del Valle Road around 3 a.m. A resident of the house told deputies when he got home from work Coffin was inside. He…

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ST. PETERSBURG — Police say they have arrested the driver of a truck that struck and killed a bicyclist and injured nine others in a hit-and-run crash final night.

Denise Battles, 18, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash and vehicular murder. Pol…

[Photo by Stephanie Garry | Times]

ST. PETERSBURG — Police say they have arrested the driver of a truck that killed a bicyclist and injured nine others in a hit-and-run crash final night.

Denise Battles, 18, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash and vehicular murder. Police say she…

BRANDON — George Elgin did not made it home from visitng his sister and his family fears the worst.

Elgin, 77, of Brandon has been driving to and from Toledo, Ohio for 13 years to stay with his sister for the summer months, said his great-niece Alicia Sandage.

He left Toledo on Sunday and was …

TAMPA — Jim Piccillo swears he was not a spy planted by the John McCain campaign to sabotage Barack Obama. Yes, he’s a registered Republican, but all that phone banking and get-out-the-vote grunt work done on behalf of Mr. “Yes We Can” is for real.

So what made Piccillo, in front of thousands at …

TAMPA — Home to night clubs, restaurants, storefronts and offices with historic facades, Ybor’s City’s Seventh Avenue has been named one of the nation’s greatest streets by the American Planning organization.

Seventh Avenue was one of 10 streets honored today by the organization, which set crite…

VALRICO — A Hillsborough County school bus rear-ended a black pickup truck around 9:30 a.m. that AM, but no children were on the bus and there were no injuries.

Witnesses said the bus hit the truck on Bell Shoals Road approach Glenhaven Drive. The bus driver, Sandra Brown, was visibly upset, witn…

Matthew Tuzzolino, 9, peers out of his now condemned mobile home at the No Go Largo Village Wednesday daylight.  ( Jim Damaske, Times )

LARGO — Residents of a Largo mobile home park who have been without water for about a week considering the landlord hasn’t paid the water bill received a…

A two-year research into counterfeit check cashing has come to an end with a number of arrests, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced today.

The inspection, dubbed Operation Checkmate, involves more than 100 suspects taking part in various check swindle rings, some of which have been oper…

Motorists fill up with $2.87 gas at the Dodges Store in Clearwater Wednesday afternoon. ( Douglas R. Clifford, Times )

UPDATE: Demands for the gas got so intense that cars began blocking traffic.

Clearwater police went to the gas station and gave the management three options: come up with a tr…