Attorneys use bootcamp playbook to press Trayvon Martin case
By Marc Caputo, Miami Herald Friday, March 23, 2012 A dead black teenager in a small town. Charges of a cover-up. A national media spotlight. A public outcry. State and federal investigations...
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By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 TAMPA — Assistant Police Chiefs Marc Hamlin and John Bennett led a nearly flawless Super Bowl in 2009. Sheriff's Col. Ed Duncan has...
View ArticleState lawmakers get one perk for the road
By Brittany Alana Davis, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, March 23, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — When Mike Fasano leaves the state Senate this year, he'll forfeit one of his perks of power: his specialty...
View ArticlePasco and Tarpon Springs officials seek slower boat speeds at Anclote
By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 HOLIDAY — If you ask Richard Jaryna what he thinks about slowing down boat speeds at the mouth of the Anclote River, he points to a small island...
View ArticleHillsborough bus driver hits 6-year-old
By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 TAMPA — Police officers cited a Hillsborough school bus driver Friday after she hit a 6-year-old. Chrishawon Ellis got off the bus and was...
View ArticleFive-year-old child beaten for bad grade, Pasco deputies say
Times staff Friday, March 23, 2012 NEW PORT RICHEY — A 5-year-old girl was beaten in the face and body last week by a caretaker because she got an "unsatisfactory grade at school," authorities...
View ArticleHusband and wife arrested in Port Richey stabbing
Times staff Friday, March 23, 2012 PORT RICHEY — A husband and wife have been arrested in connection with a Feb. 18 stabbing and beating.Jose Anazco, a 26-year-old Latin King gang member, and Nitza De...
View ArticleNew Port Richey telephone survey company closes, 120 laid off
By Alex Orlando, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 NEW PORT RICHEY — It was around noon when the managers emerged from a meeting and told everyone, without warning, that they were...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott signs school prayer bill
By Tia Mitchell, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, March 23, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — The burden is now on school districts to decide whether to allow students to pray or deliver "inspirational...
View ArticleAnn Scott doll joins Florida first lady likenesses at Pioneer Florida Museum
By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 DADE CITY — The collection is complete again.Sporting a strapless champagne-colored gown with sparkling drop-style earrings that match what...
View ArticleFAST finds power in faith and in numbers
By Waveney Ann Moore, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 The acronyms hint at a mission: PEACE in Polk County, HOPE in Hillsborough and FAST in Pinellas.Each represents an interfaith group,...
View ArticleIdea of toll lanes to be studied for Tampa Bay's interstates
By Rich Shopes, Times Correspondent Friday, March 23, 2012 TAMPA — Tampa Bay's chronically congested interstates may soon get some breathing room: toll lanes that are sometimes dubbed "Lexus...
View ArticleJudge allows confession in Hernando killing
By John Woodrow Cox, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 BROOKSVILLE — Sitting alone in an interrogation room two years ago, Steven Wesolek laid his head on a table. "I had everything I ever...
View ArticleTampa's Sacred Heart Academy to close
Friday, March 23, 2012 Sacred Heart Academy, a Tampa elementary and middle school founded 81 years ago, will close this year because of declining enrollment.Sacred Heart Church, the Franciscan parish...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Robert Herjavec lives a rags-to-race car story
By Elizabeth Behrman, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 23, 2012 The son of Yugoslavian immigrants, Robert Herjavec has waited tables, unloaded trucks at a factory and sold newspapers for money.But it...
View ArticleIn Trayvon Martin shooting, background of George Zimmerman can confound, confuse
Washington Post Friday, March 23, 2012 The shooter was once a Catholic altar boy, with a surname that could have been Jewish.His father is white, neighbors say. His mother is Latina. And his family is...
View ArticleTampa rally for slain teen draws hundreds
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 24, 2012 TAMPA — It was a rally with the flavor of a 1960s civil rights march. But this one came in the age of Facebook and the...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg man accused of shooting several times into occupied car
Times staff Saturday, March 24, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — Police on Friday arrested a man they say shot into a car six times this month, wounding one person.Deon Johnson Jr., 23, whom authorities said is...
View ArticleJudge sets bond for Rays' Matt Bush at more than $1 million
By Joe Smith, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 24, 2012 PUNTA GORDA — Saying Rays minor-league pitcher Matt Bush is a "danger to the community" and a "flight risk," Charlotte County circuit Judge...
View ArticleMotorcyclist injured in Palm Harbor crash
Times staff Saturday, March 24, 2012 PALM HARBOR — A motorcyclist was airlifted to a local hospital after colliding with a truck Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The accident, at U.S. 19 and...
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