A year later, case of missing Pinellas police cadet remains a mystery
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 INDIAN ROCKS BEACH — Lauren Rothwell walks into her dining room every day and stands before a memorial to her missing sister. She lights a...
View ArticleFired Brooksville police officer arrested on charges of burglary, grand theft...
By John Woodrow Cox, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 BROOKSVILLE — Fired Brooksville police Officer Bryan Drinkard was arrested by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office on Friday and charged...
View ArticleCourt clerks face layoffs, service delays due to state cuts
By David DeCamp and Steve Bousquet, Times Staff Writers Friday, March 9, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — If you have to pay a fine, report for jury duty or have a foreclosure case pending, brace yourself.Florida's...
View ArticleProgress Energy customers on hook for $1.1B for nuclear plant that may never...
By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 Imagine a company that profits from getting a billion-dollar project wrong.It makes money despite grossly underestimating the costs. It collects...
View ArticlePasco County clerk mulling layoffs, furloughs amid state budget cuts
By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 Pasco Clerk of Courts Paula O'Neil could lose 19 workers or institute more than two weeks of unpaid furloughs in response to a legislative budget...
View ArticleFourth arrest made in alleged Land O'Lakes pill mill
Times staff Friday, March 9, 2012 LAND O'LAKES — A 25-year-old former office manager of the Harbour Medical Group has been charged with operating a pain clinic without a license.Tosha Jo Robbins, was...
View ArticleOccupy St. Pete protestors have a new target: high bank fees
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 Davida Johns triggered a round of cheers and sign-waving from 40 or so Occupy St. Pete protestors Friday when she walked out of a Bank of...
View ArticleHey kids, there's more than Joseph Kony to get angry about
By Michael Kruse and Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writers Friday, March 9, 2012 All you teens! Many millions of you and other young people have watched the "KONY 2012" video, and now you're...
View ArticleRed flags, obvious signs, and the end for Kevin White
By Sue Carlton, Times Columnist Friday, March 9, 2012 Come Monday, a once brash and powerful politician partial to expensive suits and of-the-moment restaurants faces a federal judge.Come Monday, he...
View ArticleFeeding law enforcement during Republican National Convention a $1 million...
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 TAMPA — City Hall is seeking local vendors for a million-dollar piece of business at the Republican National Convention — catering for...
View ArticleFlorida attorney general selects lawyers to help handle BP oil spill claims
By Elizabeth Behrman, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 The Florida Attorney General's Office announced Friday that it has selected a legal team to help represent the state as it makes economic...
View ArticleGrand jury rips jailers for ignoring teen as he died
By Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald Friday, March 9, 2012 A West Palm Beach grand jury declared "fundamentally and woefully inadequate" the medical care given to an 18-year-old who died after two...
View ArticleRNC may be a mixed bag for Tampa Bay restaurants
By Laura Reiley, Times Food Critic Friday, March 9, 2012 "There will be winners and there will be losers." Bill Morrissey of Morrissey Hospitality Cos. in St. Paul, Minn., is not talking about...
View ArticleIn Florida, voter fraud is rarer than shark attacks
By Katie Sanders, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, March 9, 2012 Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert moved in on Florida's controversial new election law for a recurring segment, "People Who Are...
View ArticleDan Aykroyd delights crowd at MacDill Air Force Base
By Justin George, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 TAMPAWhen Chris Hinchee was 4 years old, his family let him pick out a movie to buy. He chose a VHS tape with a white ghost breaking out of a...
View ArticleFlorida is one step closer to getting a 12th university
By Kim Wilmath and Michael Van Sickler, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, March 9, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — The creation of Florida's 12th university has cleared its second-to-last hurdle, with both...
View ArticleMore questions arise over tactics by Pinellas sheriff's narcotics unit
By Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 9, 2012 LARGO — Three Pinellas narcotics detectives improperly and routinely accessed Progress Energy billing records for years, then misled the...
View ArticleReform bill for assisted living facilities dies in House
By Brittany Alana Davis and Michael Sallah, Times/Herald staff writers Friday, March 9, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — After years of reports of rampant abuse in Florida's assisted living facilities, Gov. Rick...
View ArticleReform bill for assisted living facilities dies
By Brittany Alana Davis and Michael Sallah, Times/Herald staff writers Friday, March 9, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — After years of reports of rampant abuse in Florida's assisted living facilities, Gov. Rick...
View ArticleTwo Sun City Center bank robberies likely the work of same person
Times Staff Friday, March 9, 2012 Apparently, he came back.Hillsborough sheriff's deputies say a man who walked into SunTrust Bank at 1525 Rickenbacker Drive in Sun City Center and robbed it Monday...
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