GOP officials knew about Greer fundraising deal, former finance chair says
By Lucy Morgan, Times Senior Correspondent Friday, April 13, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Harry Sargeant III, former finance chair for the Florida Republican of Party says he and other party officials knew all...
View ArticleBoston Red Sox blast Tampa Bay Rays 12-2
By Marc Topkin, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 BOSTON — Of all that went wrong for the Rays in Friday's 12-2 loss to the Red Sox — and with former teammate Kelly Shoppach getting three...
View ArticleCouncil of 100 tells Gov. Rick Scott to veto USF Poly bill
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 The Florida Council of 100 says the state cannot afford another university in a year when the existing 11 are having to endure $300 million in...
View ArticleToddler fights for his life at All Children's, as advocates push for new...
By Irene Maher, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — Not long after Kye Johnson was born in 2010, the baffling infections started. Colds, pneumonia, bronchitis and painful ear...
View ArticleBudget watchers unveil annual 'turkey' list; urge Scott vetoes
By Brittany Alan Davis, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, April 13, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — A $1.4 billion state budget shortfall didn't stop lawmakers this year from stuffing the $70 billion budget...
View ArticleUrban Teaching Academy scholarship plan was shaky for years
By Marlene Sokol and Elisabeth Parker, Times staff writers Friday, April 13, 2012 TAMPA — It was magnet night at Ferrell Middle School. Parents and kids were collecting pamphlets. One offered college...
View ArticleMichael Graziano, younger brother of John Graziano, dies of injuries from crash
Times Staff Friday, April 13, 2012 LARGO — Michael Graziano, the younger brother of John Graziano — who was seriously injured in a crash with Hulk Hogan's son in 2007 — died Friday afternoon from...
View ArticleGov. Scott spends work day at Tampa International Airport
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 TAMPA — United Airlines Flight 349 arrived at Tampa International Airport a few minutes early on Friday.The jet's public address...
View ArticleTampa police searching for rape suspect
Times staff Friday, April 13, 2012 TAMPA — Police are searching for man who raped a woman in Copeland Park on Monday morning. The woman was walking a trail in the park at 11001 N 15th St. just after...
View ArticleUpsetting tea party, Scott allows energy bill to become law
By Katie Sanders, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, April 13, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott disappointed tea party conservatives Friday by allowing a bipartisan energy proposal championed...
View ArticleAWOL serviceman kills himself in Clearwater Beach hotel
By Mike Brassfield, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 CLEARWATER — An AWOL serviceman barricaded himself in a Clearwater Beach hotel room Friday evening and killed himself as police and U.S....
View ArticleSt. Pete man arrested on capital sexual battery charge
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — Police arrested a 23-year-old St. Petersburg man Thursday on a charge of capital sexual battery.Kevin Thomas Proctor was...
View ArticleSt. Pete police arrest man they say threatened to extort girlfriend with...
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — A St. Petersburg man was charged with extortion Thursday after he threatened to publicize a sexually explicit photo of his...
View ArticleBob Buckhorn signs Tampa law creating domestic partnership registry
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 TAMPA — As Mayor Bob Buckhorn Friday signed the local law creating the Tampa Bay area's first domestic partnership registry, a clearer...
View ArticleFear public speaking? Nationally recognized St. Petersburg College professor...
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 SEMINOLE — Tony Smith is a communications professor at St. Petersburg College who loves teaching speech. And apparently, a lot of students...
View ArticleParalyzed outlaw evades deputies for days in the Green Swamp
By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2012 Terry Keith Yates had been evading capture for a week.Law enforcement from Pasco, Hernando, Lake, Polk and Sumter counties, as well as state...
View ArticleTwo passengers ejected in rollover crash, one dies
By Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writer Saturday, April 14, 2012 HUDSONPassengers in crash ejected, one diesA woman was killed early Saturday after the car she was riding in lost control, overturned and...
View ArticleRepublicans fret about Connie Mack campaign
By Adam C. Smith and Marc Caputo, Times/Herald Staff Writers Saturday, April 14, 2012 With an iconic name and access to Washington cash, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack looked like the great Republican hope...
View ArticleAWOL serviceman who killed himself in Clearwater Beach hotel was New Mexico...
By Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writer Saturday, April 14, 2012 CLEARWATER — Carolyn Foreman last spoke to her son around Christmas. Jesse J. Foreman, a 36-year-old Air Force technical sergeant, called...
View ArticleOil spill put USF marine science program in the spotlight
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer Saturday, April 14, 2012 If there is some small silver lining in the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history, consider the University of South...
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