Alan Crotzer: Pardons Are Ticket To New Life Then: Lawmakers and Gov. Charlie Crist gave the former inmate $1.25 million last spring to compensate him for the 241/2 years he spent in prison for crimes he did not commit. ...more

December 28, 2008

The wife of embattled zoo CEO Lex Salisbury was hit with animal cruelty charges Thursday, accused of leaving two dogs inside Salisbury's closed SUV while he was speaking with the zoo board about his future. ...more

December 19, 2008

Santa Claus says he's added a New York City traffic agent to his naughty list after she gave him a ticket for double parking while delivering gifts to children. ...more

December 18, 2008

It was like something out of the movies — a high-speed police chase, 30 seconds of flying lead from the rat-a-tat-tat of rapid gunfire and bloodshed. ...more

December 18, 2008

An armed man jumped out of a black sport utility vehicle Sunday morning and tried grabbing a bag a woman was carrying, thinking it was her purse, Hillsborough County deputies say. The bag contained only her lunch. And a water bottle. ...more

December 16, 2008

Two men were killed in separate accidents on Saturday in Pasco County. ...more

December 14, 2008

John Henson was just a regular high school student once. He was an above-average small forward entering high school, but between his sophomore and junior years at Round Rock High in Texas, Henson grew 6 inches. ...more

December 14, 2008

A woman arrested in the shooting death of actor Mark Ruffalo's younger brother was cleared of wrongdoing and released after police were shown evidence that the wound was self-inflicted, her attorney said Wednesday. ...more

December 10, 2008

A man who crashed a sport utility vehicle into a Clearwater police cruiser before leading police on a chase eventually was found hiding behind a big-screen TV, police say. ...more

December 9, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG The woman killed Thursday afternoon when a tire blew out on her sport utility vehicle on Interstate 275 has been identified as Sabrina Caryl Starliper, 21, of Mercersburg, Pa., according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Starliper was driving a 1998 Ford SUV north on the interstate, just south of 54th Avenue North, when the left rear tire blew, the patrol said. She lost control of the vehicle, and it spun, went down an embankment and flipped over, the patrol said. ...more

December 5, 2008