St. Petersburg Times

BROOKSVILLE Hernando County investigators have arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of running a "chop shop" in Masaryktown. Full Story »

Instead of addressing his sentencing, the convicted man rails against his attorney. Full Story »

Old rule: I do not want a gift of any kind unless I can eat it or wear it. Full Story »

TAMPA Derrick Brooks earned a reputation as a dominant linebacker and fearsome tackler for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Full Story »

Temple Beth David helps kids get ready for the Hanukkah celebration and learn its meaning. Full Story »

BrieflyTerry Ogden, a Web site designer, has started The Oggie Web, 3363 Cedar Crest Loop, Spring Hill. Full Story »

LARGO Jimmy Alton Dunn's drunken past caught up to him Friday inside a Pinellas County courtroom. Full Story »

LARGO Jimmy Alton Dunn's drunken past caught up to him in a Pinellas County courtroom on Friday. Full Story »

The gap between Halloween and Christmas is usually a home sales purgatory. But the Tampa housing market made an exception this year. Full Story »

TAMPA From the air it looks like a pile of noodles. Ramps twisting and splitting, flyover lanes soaring, highways going this way and that. Full Story »

TAMPA Last spring, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend's baby, Richard McTear Jr. yelled out that he still loved her as he was being led out of court. Full Story »

LARGO Robert J. Mueller, who authorities said used racial slurs as he shot at a black man during a February 2007 criminal rampage across Tarpon Springs, will spend at least 40 years in prison. Full Story »

MARIETTA, Ga. The 12-year-old Tampa boy sat in the Cobb County Juvenile Courthouse Friday morning, still an accused baby murderer. A few hours later, he chomped on potato chips and Skittles and asked to go to the all-you-can-eat buffet at Golden Corral. He told his family he had plans for his future. Full Story »

NEW PORT RICHEY Jurors in the murder case of neo-Nazi John Dittullio began deliberating just before 1 p.m. today. The prosecution and the defense both waived their closing arguments. Full Story »

By ALEXANDRA ZAYASTimes Staff WriterMARIETTA, Ga. To argue the innocence of a 12-year-old Tampa boy in his Georgia murder trial Friday, his defense attorney suggested to a judge that it wasn't the boy who killed his five-week-old cousin it may have been the infant's mother. Full Story »

ST. PETERSBURG Authorities are searching Tampa Bay waters for a possible suicide jumper after someone reported an abandoned car atop the Skyway Bridge Friday morning. Full Story »

ST. PETERSBURG Firefighters had two missions when they descended upon the burning mobile home off Gandy Boulevard late Thursday night: Full Story »

A Tampa jury finds Chauncey Robinson guilty of murder and aggravated child abuse. Full Story »

The victim and attacker in Wednesday's shooting and suicide had once been friends. Full Story »

Mourners recall C. Bette Wimbish as a friend and fighter of racial wrongs. Full Story »

He testifies that he was framed by his white supremacist brothers. Full Story »

TAMPA A former Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for forcing a woman to perform a sex act on him in his patrol car. Full Story »

Q & A: Advertisers who stopped using coupons are coming back. Full Story »

TAMPA Two tugboats helped free a 371-foot ship that ran aground in the Alafia River Thursday afternoon on its way to the Port of Tampa from Riverview. Full Story »

The female and her mate were making the annual trek to Florida from Wisconsin. Full Story »