Georgia Pacific's paper mill in Palatka is joining two Orlando theme parks that claim they are exempt from a new state law allowing employees to keep guns in their cars at work. ...more

July 15, 2008

If you are a law-abiding citizen who possesses a concealed weapons permit, you may now bring your little gun to work and keep it in your car. Isn't that peachy? ...more

July 3, 2008

CLEARWATER - An attorney for the family of Javon Dawson says she has presented several witnesses to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office, and that all of them say the teenager was unarmed before and when he was fatally shot by a St. Petersburg police officer. ...more

July 1, 2008

Timothy Craig Blackwelder went to his former girlfriend's home, pulled a gun on her husband and fired one shot, killing him as he made a 911 call asking for help, a jury determined. ...more

May 24, 2008

TAMPA - A 25-year-old man illegally went to his former girlfriend's home, pulled a gun on her husband and fired one shot, killing him as he made a 911 call asking for help, a jury determined today. ...more

May 22, 2008

TAMPA - The trial of man charged with murder will continue today despite an outburst Tuesday afternoon where a man in the courtroom gallery yelled that the defendant killed his brother and struggled with bailiffs as he was dragged from the courtroom. ...more

May 21, 2008

As a jury listened to a 911 tape play the last minutes of George Stewart's life, his family and friends cried in the front row of the courtroom. ...more

May 21, 2008

Timothy Craig Blackwelder is charged with murder, burglary of a dwelling with assault and violating a domestic violence injunction. If Blackwelder is found guilty of the murder charge, he will receive a mandatory life sentence. ...more

May 20, 2008

That was state Sen. Victor Crist's reaction Wednesday to the news conference Wednesday at which Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Robert J. Morris Jr. said planned state budget cuts probably would lead to furloughs of Pinellas and Pasco court employees in May and June. ...more

February 21, 2008

The specter of shuttered courthouses from Key West to Pensacola was raised Wednesday after local chief judges said they and others were told to furlough key employees to save about $17 million statewide. ...more

February 21, 2008