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Friday, January 09, 2009

Motorcycle crash seriously injures one

ST. PETERSBURG -- Police are investigating a crash that seriously injured a motorcyclist late Friday night.

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Man charged with setting Clearwater condo on fire

CLEARWATER ­— A man was arrested Friday on a charge that he lit a three-story Clearwater Beach condo where he lives on fire.

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Man killed crossing Gulf to Bay in Clearwater

CLEARWATER -- A pedestrian was killed tonight when he stepped into the path of a vehicle on Gulf to Bay Boulevard tonight.

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Developer's dump trucks can't use Lutz-Lake Fern Road

KEYSTONE -- A Hillsborough County hearing officer today denied developer Stephen Dibbs' request to allow dump trucks on Lutz-Lake Fern Road.

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Wesley Chapel ranked fourth-fastest growing area in U.S.

WESLEY CHAPEL -- A national data group has named this burb of Tampa one of eight fastest growing areas in the United States.

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Smoke from controlled burn clouds northern Hillsborough

TAMPA - Smell smoke? If you're in the northern part of Hillsborough County, that's probably due to a large, controlled burn consuming more than 150 acres near U.S. 301 and Ranch Road in an area called 2 Rivers Ranch.

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Given leniency, Hernando teen heads back to jail

SPRING HILL — A Hernando judge on Thursday gave 16-year-old Natasha Raiola two weeks of freedom before she started her 3-year prison sentence. But Raiola needed only 12 hours before landing behind bars.

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Hernando band director resigns

BROOKSVILLE - Facing the near certainty of termination, not to mention criminal charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, Nature Coast High band director Tim Brightbill has resigned.

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Tampa police: Suspect told fellow inmate he killed ex-girlfriend

TAMPA -- The ex-boyfriend of a woman who called 911 from the trunk of a car admitted to a fellow inmate that he knocked her unconscious, put her in the trunk, then killed her and left her body in Lakeland, Tampa police said today.

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Body found in St. Petersburg alley identified as missing teen

ST. PETERSBURG - A body discovered in an alley this morning has been identified as Malayshia Kierra Gamble, a 15-year-old girl reported missing in early December. She had a gunshot wound to the upper body, St. Petersburg Police said.

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