Pinellas County News

The Friends of the Island Parks invite the public to an opening for etching and watercolor artist John Costin, 5:50-7:30 p.m. at Rotary Centennial Nature Center, Honeymoon Island State Park, 1 Causeway Blvd., Dunedin.

After several months, organic compost can be dug from a compost pile and used in gardens.

I n these tough times, it's a matter of neighbors helping neighbors. When the members of the Pinellas County Historical Society, the nonprofit support group for Heritage Village, received word that Pinellas County would not be able to provide the resources necessary to hold its Market in the Park at the Pinellas Extension, they extended an ...

Two days before his trial on rape charges, a Pinellas County Jail inmate attacked his two attorneys when they went to see him Saturday, sheriff's officials said.

The county's embattled former fleet department manager, Jack Stepongzi, received a scathing job performance review on his last evaluation in June and was warned of termination if he didn't improve.

A Havana-born commissioner and former television reporter has won the Miami mayor's race.

At the October 27, 2009 meeting of the Pinellas County, Fl. Board of Commissioners , with over 150 residents and business people of Pinellas County in attendance, the commissioners directed their staff to draw up a fertilizer ordinance for them to consider at a future time.

An inmate at the Pinellas County Jail attacked his two attorneys Saturday after they refused his request to fire them, deputies said.

Lori Hilling of Palm Harbor reads a narrative Wednesday from the Walking in our Juveniles' Shoes art installation at the Pinellas County Jail in Largo.

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport runs Airco Golf Course, which took a beating from the economy, rain and oppressive heat.

It's that time of year when even cemetery guards are more easily spooked, on alert for signs of one of the oldest, most ghoulish and most persistent of crimes: grave robberies.

A couple who married shortly after World War II and stayed together 64 years has died a day apart.

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Petersburg man has been killed in a shootout with police. It started late Wednesday when Pinellas County deputies tried to stop the black Mustang that Kentin Deon Brooks was driving, and ended in a gun fight after they forced the car to crash.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal deputy-involved shooting in Indian Shores late last night.

St. Petersburg authorities were exhuming the body of a woman buried in 1948 to see if it matches a skull found in a former gravedigger's home.

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A search crew from Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg, Fla., recovered the body of a man in Tampa Bay at 9:08 p.m. on October 27, after a three hour search was conducted by multiple law enforcement agencies.

Bessie Kirnes, from left, Delannie Dennis, Donna Butler and Jacquelyn Thompson cheer as their church, Mount Zion A.M.E. Church, is introduced Monday during the Roll Call of Congregations at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in St.

Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Thursday the arrest of a Pinellas County man accused of possessing child pornography.