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The Pinellas County Justice Center at 14250 49th Street N.
Should Pinellas name courthouse after prosecutor Bernie McCabe?
Residents will get the chance to weigh in at next week’s Pinellas County Commission meeting.
Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad gets ‘quite a deal’ with 3-year prison sentence
Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad pled guilty on Wednesday to lesser charges in the attempted murder case against him during a plea hearing held before Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court judge Mary Handsel at the West Pasco Judicial Center in New Port Richey. Authorities say Massad fired on Pasco sheriff's deputies raiding his home in a 2019 investigation of allegations he was practicing law without a license. He was sentenced to 3-years in prison, but will get credit for the two years he has spent in county jail awaiting trial.
Massad faced attempted murder charges and a potential life sentence for firing on the SWAT team that raided his home.
Woman faces manslaughter charge in shooting at Tampa apartment complex
Joilica Sutherland, 27, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of a man at the Palm Avenue Apartments in Tampa earlier in the day, records show.
Joilica Sutherland, 27, told police she shot a man during an argument at the Palm Avenue Apartments in Tampa, an arrest report says.
School resource officer fired by Tampa Police for using racial slur
Check tampabay.com for the latest breaking news and updates.
The officer, who is Black, said he did not mean the word in a derogatory manner.

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  1. State: Defendant in New Tampa bike death was insane
    7 minutes ago• Crime
    Mikese Morse attends a pretrial detention hearing in 2018 in Hillsborough Circuit Court. He is accused of intentionally swerving off the road June 24 and killing a father riding bikes with his two young sons on New Tampa Boulevard. Prosecutors agreed this week that Morse should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. [TIMES | (2018)]
  2. Dallas police officer charged with 2 counts of capital murder
    1 hour ago• Nation & World
    Chief Eddie García, center, speaks with media during a press conference regarding the arrest and capital murder charges against Officer Bryan Riser at the Dallas Police Department headquarters on Thursday.
  3. Should Pinellas name courthouse after prosecutor Bernie McCabe?
    3 hours ago• Pinellas
    The Pinellas County Justice Center at 14250 49th Street N.
  5. Tampa police justified in shootings where two men were injured, review finds
    Yesterday• Crime
    A Tampa police officer's body camera footage shows the officer aiming a gun at Jeremy D. Liwag just before opening fire at a Tampa apartment complex on Jan. 18. Police say Liwag raised a gun toward the unidentified officer, forcing him to open fire.
  6. Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad gets ‘quite a deal’ with 3-year prison sentence
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad pled guilty on Wednesday to lesser charges in the attempted murder case against him during a plea hearing held before Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court judge Mary Handsel at the West Pasco Judicial Center in New Port Richey. Authorities say Massad fired on Pasco sheriff's deputies raiding his home in a 2019 investigation of allegations he was practicing law without a license. He was sentenced to 3-years in prison, but will get credit for the two years he has spent in county jail awaiting trial.
  7. Woman faces manslaughter charge in shooting at Tampa apartment complex
    Yesterday• Crime
    Joilica Sutherland, 27, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of a man at the Palm Avenue Apartments in Tampa earlier in the day, records show.
  8. Tampa woman calls 911, says she shot someone. Now it’s a homicide investigation.
    Yesterday• Tampa
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  9. Florida company fined $280K for violating Mississippi’s no-call laws
    Mar. 2• Florida
    A company based in Kissimmee has been fined for violating Mississippi's phone call laws.
  10. FBI chief warns violent ‘domestic terrorism’ growing in U.S.
    Mar. 2• Nation & World
    FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Wray is condemning the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol as “domestic terrorism.”
  11. 2 men dead after shootout between two groups in Sulphur Springs
    Mar. 2• Crime
    Tampa police are seeking information about a shootout Monday night that claimed the lives of two men, 18 and 27.
  12. St. Pete 5-year-old, hospitalized after abuse, dies of injuries, police say
    Mar. 1• Crime
    William Green, 32, faces a murder charge and two counts of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm after his 5-year-old daughter died from injuries police said Green inflicted.
  13. FBI raid in New Tampa has links to Kentucky Medicare fraud, murder-for-hire
    Mar. 1• Crime
    Lesa Andrade, 61, of New Tampa, was arrested Feb. 25 in a federal murder-for-hire case. She was being held in the Pinellas County Jail, awaiting a hearing Wednesday in Kentucky federal court.
  14. Hillsborough deputies arrest man in connection with three murders
    Mar. 1• Crime
    Jerome James Knight faces charges of first degree murder.
  15. 2 Americans wanted in Carlos Ghosn’s escape in a box now in Japanese custody
    Mar. 1• Nation & World
    This Dec. 30, 2019 image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. Taylor is accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in 2019.
  16. N95 masks are the best. But if you manage to get one, it might be a fake.
    Feb. 27• Health
    This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation.
  17. Maria Chapa Lopez resigns as U.S. Attorney for Tampa
    Feb. 27• Florida
    Maria Chapa Lopez was the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. She resigned Friday.
  18. Former Tampa teacher found not guilty in sex case involving student
    Feb. 26• Hillsborough
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  19. Girl, 12, sold stun guns at Tampa middle school, police say
    Feb. 26• Tampa
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  20. Tampa ex-attorney in Cambodian prison for sexual abuse now faces U.S. charges
    Feb. 26• Tampa
    Ex-Tampa attorney Rugh James Cline, 40, is serving time in a Cambodian prison for sexually abusing children there, authorities say. He has been indicted for the same allegations in the U.S. by a federal grand jury in Tampa. This photo was taken by Cambodian police after his 2019 arrest there.
  21. Ex-Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad agrees to plea deal after shooting at deputies
    Feb. 26• Crime
    Former Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad appears in court in 2019. Massad will plead guilty to several charges, attorneys said in court Friday, two years after he was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he shot at a Pasco County Sheriff's Office SWAT team as they tried to raid his house in an investigation into practicing medicine without a license.
  22. Dontae Morris to get new life sentence in third Tampa murder
    Feb. 26• Hillsborough
    Dontae Morris appears during his 2015 trial for the murder of Derek Anderson. [TIMES | (2015)]
  23. Man arrested on murder charge after shooting at Largo apartment complex
    Feb. 26• Crime
    Arthur Lee Scott, 33, was arrested Thursday in Fort Lauderdale in connection to a fatal shooting at the Four Lakes at Clearwater apartments in Largo on Monday, police said.
  24. Port Richey man sexually battered 13-year-old in Pinellas Park, police say
    Feb. 25• Pinellas
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