Pinellas deputies search for intruder, find deer instead

St. Petersburg Times - Sun Nov 08

Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies George Moffett and David Littlejohn saw blood on the kitchen floor and heard banging noises coming from a back bedroom.

Deputies guide deer out of house, back to woods

Tampa Bay Online - Sun Nov 08

Pinellas County sheriff's deputies George Moffett and David Littlejohn were familiar with calls of a burglary in progress, a tense situation even without the broken window or blood trail they found early Saturday.

Bay area couple about contractor: "Once he got his money, he disappeared."

WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg - Sun Nov 08

When Doug Trimpe and his fiancee, Sarah, bought their first house on the water, they wanted to turn one of their windows into a double door.

Man faces child porn charges

WFTS - Sat Nov 07

A Pinellas county man is in jail this morning charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography.

Dunedin passed ordinance for unleashed dogs: $88 ticket

St. Petersburg Times - Sat Nov 07

Dunedin dog-walkers, the city's got a new law: fetch a leash or pay up. Any animal found in public without a leash could net its owner an $88 ticket, city commissioners voted Thursday.

Changes to Clearwater Municipal Marina would require referendum

St. Petersburg Times - Sat Nov 07

Clearwater Beach residents are intensely protective of the Municipal Marina. They cherish it as one of the last places on the barrier island where the public has free and easy access to Clearwater Bay.

Motorcyclist killed in crash with pickup truck in Dunedin

St. Petersburg Times - Fri Nov 06

A Dunedin man died early Friday when his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies said.

Cold nostrils, or cold daiquiris?

MyFoxTampaBay - Fri Nov 06

Pinellas County plans to use "guerilla advertising" to hunt for tourists in the urban jungles of New York and Chicago.

Wrong-day waterers end up in handcuffs, then jail

Tampa Bay Online - Fri Nov 06

As Xuan-Nuong Lam Tran pulled her Mercedes ML 350 into a parking spot at a post office, another customer flung open her own car door, causing minor damage.

Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services settled former leader's sex harassment suit

St. Petersburg Times - Thu Nov 05

One of Pinellas County's biggest nonprofits paid $25,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim against its president in 2008, though he denied any wrongdoing, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.