The last remnants of one of the city's oldest businesses are going to fade into history. The city has awarded a contract to D.H. Griffin Wrecking Co. to tear down the remaining buildings and other structures at the former Stock Building Supply at 510 and 511 S. Collins St. Griffin Wrecking will pay the city $500, in exchange for the right to salvage materials from the site. ...more

November 26, 2009

For 46 years, Ed Cain has carried the memory of witnessing Lee Harvey Oswald being gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. ...more

November 23, 2009

Police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport scuffle between Mike Tyson and photographer that resulted in both men being booked and released on suspicion of misdemeanor battery. ...more

November 12, 2009

LARGO -- A 20-year-old Largo woman was arrested Tuesday after her boyfriend found her with another man at her home, and she falsely claimed the man was raping her, according to Largo police. Coffii Ann Castellion, of 605 16th Ave. N.W., lot 1, was charged with making a false report to a law enforcement officer. ...more

October 14, 2009

A Largo police officer going through some old shotgun shells a woman had turned in for proper disposal at the police station found something else in the mix Sunday morning: a half-stick of dynamite. ...more

June 29, 2009

A 32-year-old man was arrested early Thursday in the fatal shooting of a bicyclist last weekend, police said. ...more

April 17, 2009

Two officers were standing in the parking lot of the police station this morning at 5:30 a.m. when a man walked up to them and told them he had killed his wife. ...more

April 12, 2009

Investigators have detonated one possible explosive device at a city parking garage and neutralized a second device, Lakeland police spokesman Jack Gillen said. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Highlands County recycling bins that had been on Museum Avenue, between the library and the police station, have been moved to the Durrah Martin Sports Complex. ...more

February 5, 2009

If a closed-door meeting today is any indication, the police department and the city's convenience store owners are at loggerheads over which safety measures the stores should install to ward off robbers. ...more

February 3, 2009