CLEARWATER -- After an eight-month investigation that included state agents, Pinellas County deputies arrested three men and closed three businesses Wednesday that investigators say were running illegal Internet gambling operations. Detectives also seized 139 computers and $14,000 after serving search warrants on the businesses located in Seminole, Dunedin and Palm Harbor. ...more

May 29, 2008

Pinellas County Sheriff investigators closed down three Internet cafes for serving-up alleged gambling activities. ...more

May 29, 2008

WellCare Health Plans, an administrator of government-sponsored health care plans that is under investigation by the U.S. attorney's office, on Thursday laid off 208 employees, including some at its Henderson Road headquarters. ...more

May 23, 2008

When deputies found Edward Covington hiding under a pile of clothes in the Lutz mobile home where his girlfriend and her two children were slaughtered, he was covered in what looked like blood, according to court documents. ...more

May 23, 2008

When deputies found Edward Covington hiding under a pile of clothes in the Lutz mobile home where his girlfriend and her two children were slaughtered, he was covered in what looked like blood, according to court documents. ...more

May 22, 2008

TAMPA - Postal inspectors in Puerto Rico flagged a suspicious express mail package bound for Polk County. Turns out it contained nearly 2 pounds of cocaine inside coffee bags, Polk County deputies say. ...more

February 14, 2008

If you feel your Valentine's Day chocolates are not such a sweet deal this year, you're not alone. Regulators are investigating price fixing among candy makers in at least three different countries. ...more

February 14, 2008

The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - When Hillsborough County deputies entered a missing couple's Tampa condominium, they found blood on a wall, a bullet on the floor, a live shotgun shell on a counter and animal feces throughout. ...more

November 6, 2007

Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. ...more

September 27, 2007