Armed robbery suspect surrenders after seven-hour standoff with SWAT team
By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 NEW PORT RICHEY — Alexander Curry told his mother he wasn't going back to prison.Police said she told them he would shoot any officer who...
View ArticleMotorcyclist, 19, dies after falling off I-275 entrance ramp near Ulmerton...
By Marissa Lang, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — A 19-year-old motorcyclist died late Wednesday when he lost control of his bike and was thrown over the retaining wall of...
View ArticleOne killed in fiery Thonotosassa crash involving SUV, dump truck
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 THONOTOSASSA — A Dade City man was killed early Thursday after his sport utility vehicle collided with a dump truck and caught on fire,...
View ArticlePasco County deputies search for escaped monkey
By Marissa Lang, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 SHADY HILLS — A man wasn't monkeying around early Thursday when he told deputies he lost his pet primate in the woods.According to the Pasco...
View ArticleTeenager charged with multiple DUIs to stand trial in July
Times Staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — Kimberly McCarthy, an 18-year-old charged with driving while intoxicated three times over 18 days and felony possession of illegal drugs, will stand trial...
View ArticleMango Elementary teacher accused of molesting student pleads not guilty
Times Staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — Fifth-grade Mango Elementary teacher Ethel Anderson has pleaded not guilty to six counts of sex acts with a 12-year-old boy.Anderson, 29, was named...
View ArticlePlant City Save-A-Lot shooter receives prison time
Times Staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — Andrew Lee Brown, 54, will never leave prison for storming into a Save-A-Lot warehouse in Plant City last May, where he shot a worker, barricaded himself...
View ArticleIn a first for Tampa Bay, Tampa creates domestic partnership registry
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — In a historic vote, this city Thursday became the first in the Tampa Bay area to create a registry where unmarried partners can...
View ArticleTampa creates the first domestic partnership registry in the Tampa Bay area
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — In a historic decision, this city Thursday became the first in the Tampa Bay area to create a registry where unmarried couples...
View ArticleGirlfriend of suspect in deaths of Tampa officers to be tried in June
Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — The girlfriend of a man accused of killing two Tampa police officers will go on trial in June for her role in the 2010 shooting, a federal judge said Thursday.Attorneys...
View ArticleTampa council delays vote on 'Clean Zone' protest rules for GOP convention
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — The Tampa City Council Thursday postponed a first vote on the city's proposed ground rules for protests outside the Republican...
View ArticleVinik group offers to buy Channelside
By Mark Puente, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA – Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik wants to buy another of the city's crown jewels.Vinik is part of a group that submitted an offer...
View ArticleU.S. Rep. Connie Mack launches Keystone XL pipeline petition
By Marc Caputo, Miami Herald Thursday, April 5, 2012 With a gas pump doubling as a campaign prop, Senate candidate Connie Mack launched a petition drive Thursday at a Miami gas station to call for the...
View ArticleTampa pair denied bail on drug charges
By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — After police nabbed three men in a drug sting last week, officers say they found 67 TurboTax debit cards, treasury checks...
View ArticleEddie Vedder postpones both Clearwater concerts to deal with nerve damage in arm
By Jay Cridlin, Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 5, 2012 Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has postponed his May 10 and 11 concerts at Ruth Eckerd Hall "due to temporary nerve damage in his right arm,...
View ArticleHillsborough deputies look for hotel room thief who took TV, iron, curtains,...
Times staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPA — Lugging a television set half her size, a crafty thief slipped out of a hotel and disappeared. She took the TV, a garbage can, iron, ironing board,...
View ArticleActor Gary Sinise cancels Sunscreen Film Festival concert in St. Pete after...
Times staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 If you were already lining up for Gary Sinise's group the Lt. Dan Band at the seventh annual Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Pete, we have some bad news. The actor...
View ArticleVerizon truck burns after accidentally touching Largo power lines
Times staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 LARGO — A Verizon truck caught fire Thursday morning after it accidentally came into contact with power lines. The incident took place around 9:30 a.m. near Auburn...
View ArticleStudents hone debating skills, study world issues at Model United Nations
By Sherri Ackerman, Times Correspondent Thursday, April 5, 2012 TAMPAConnor Neal was just a baby when the first Model United Nations Conference came to Tampa. Last week, the 11-year-old from Lee...
View ArticleSuspects nabbed after chase through Pasco, Hernando
Times staff Thursday, April 5, 2012 After a 20-mile chase Thursday afternoon that ended south of Brooksville, deputies from two counties caught a pair of suspects sought in a possible attempted...
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