The great hedge debate is over. Or is it? Jim Shanklin, who has waged a nearly four-year battle against the city to defend what he says is his constitutional right to keep his front yard hedges as tall as he wants, has been ordered by a judge to comply with the city's hedge-height limit. ...more

October 20, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - The great hedge debate is over. Or is it? Jim Shanklin, who has waged a nearly four-year battle against the city to defend what he says is his constitutional right to keep his front yard hedges as tall as he wants, has been ordered by a judge to comply with the city's hedge-height limit. Yet Shanklin still may end up keeping his too-tall hedges, or at least the appearance of them. ...more

October 19, 2007

A Lithia man has filed for a temporary restraining order against a Tampa police officer who the man says roughed up his 17-year-old son. ...more

October 11, 2007

ORLANDO - A 19-year-old man accused of killing an off-duty Orlando police officer made his first appearance before a judge. ...more

October 7, 2007

Some people think Shayla Muldrow got a raw deal. She was sentenced to a year in jail for boarding a school bus and urging her 9-year-old daughter to attack another student. ...more

September 26, 2007

A cycle shop owner facing a possible jail sentence over code violations has cleaned up his property enough to earn a time extension. ...more

September 26, 2007

Nick Bollea last week pleaded no contest to charges he was speeding in Pinellas Park on Aug. 10, a move that brings restrictions on his driver's license, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. ...more

September 25, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Nick Bollea last week pleaded no contest to charges he was speeding in Pinellas Park on Aug. 10, a move that brings restrictions on his driver's license, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. ...more

September 24, 2007

If Central Academy were just about any other building, no one would object to it facing the demolition ball. ...more

September 24, 2007

A 26-year-old mother convicted this week of walking onto a school bus and encouraging her daughter to fight another girl was sentenced to a year in county jail. ...more

September 21, 2007