Pasco deputies arrest two suspects in cooking oil theft ring
By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 PORT RICHEY — Cpl. Michael Toczylowski saw a suspicious truck behind the Chili's on U.S. 19 about 2:30 a.m. Thursday and pulled it over....
View ArticleSafety Harbor man, 19, accused of kidnapping woman
By Peter Jamison, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 CLEARWATER — A Safety Harbor man was arrested on charges including kidnapping after he forced an 18-year-old woman into his car Friday...
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with 2006 Oldsmar shooting
By Peter Jamison, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 Pinellas County Sheriff's Office detectives have made an arrest in an Oldsmar shooting death that was open for almost six years.Hector J....
View ArticleThomas Gonzalez, Hillsborough School Board attorney, resigns
Times staff Friday, April 27, 2012 TAMPA — Thomas Gonzalez, who represents both the Hillsborough County School Board and the district, has resigned as board attorney. "I just think it's time to start...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott's choice for Florida surgeon general is a USF physician
By Katie Sanders, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, April 27, 2012 Dr. John Armstrong, a University of South Florida health official and former Army trauma surgeon, will be the state's surgeon...
View ArticleControversy erupts in Pasco over social studies textbook selection
By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 LAND O'LAKES — A storm is brewing in the Pasco County School District over normally noncontroversial textbook adoption.After spending...
View ArticleMore USF Poly resignations, including Goodman's son
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 TAMPA — Add the son of embattled former chancellor Marshall Goodman to the list of recent resignations from the University of South Florida...
View ArticleNew Rules for troubled Florida homeowners
Friday, April 27, 2012 A $1 billion program to help struggling homeowners pay their mortgages is getting a massive overhaul, potentially opening the door for thousands of previously ineligible...
View ArticleInventors get lessons, reality checks
By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 TAMPA — Susan Van Volkenburg's young kids kept spilling their drinks. So did her friends' kids. She wondered if it wasn't so much the kids,...
View ArticleLying on street proves fatal to St. Petersburg man killed by hit-run driver
By Marissa Lang, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — He was smiling as he lowered himself onto the pavement, stared up at his friends on a nearby porch and spoke his last...
View ArticleClearwater man arrested on child sex charge has history of similar accusations
By Peter Jamison, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 CLEARWATER — Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 48-year-old Clearwater man with a history of child sex abuse accusations on...
View ArticleNew Port Richey Police raid massage parlor, make prostitution arrest
By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 NEW PORT RICHEY — Marianne Brewer said she saw girls in the window of the massage parlor next door wearing only slips. That was suspicious,...
View ArticleTip leads to arrest in 2011 robbery and beating of Holiday man
By Alex Orlando, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 HOLIDAY — They came in the earliest hours of the morning. Two men in masks. One carried a crowbar.They found the victim, a 57-year-old man,...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott vetoes tuition "pre-eminence" bill
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 After saying for months he does not believe in tuition increases, Gov. Rick Scott stuck to his word Friday and vetoed a bill that would have...
View ArticleA new era for the Space Coast
By Tia Mitchell, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, April 27, 2012 TITUSVILLE — Tourists began booking rooms weeks ago, making plans to see what is more than a routine rocket launch from Cape...
View ArticleFormer Pinellas deputy's record reveals string of brutality complaints
By Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 LARGO — Richard Farnham was hired as a deputy by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in 2000 when Everett Rice was sheriff. He resigned...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg police arrest two in connection with website where women beat...
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — The home page of Shefights.net — which sells Web videos of scantily clad women beating up, dominating and punishing homeless...
View ArticleOrganizers of Bible reading marathon to bring the sacred to steps of Tampa...
By Sharon Tubbs, Times Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2012 TAMPA — Visitors to Tampa City Hall will hear something different — something hallowed — in the air next week.Amid the typical government...
View ArticleTwo judges, two strikes against bad drug testing edicts
By Sue Carlton, Times Columnist Friday, April 27, 2012 Just when you think there is not a shred of sanity left in how we run this state, you get a sign.Two, even.As Gov. Rick Scott has surely noticed,...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott will sign bill banning governments from hiring companies tied...
By Patricia Mazzei, Miami Herald Friday, April 27, 2012 Gov. Rick Scott said on Friday that he intends to sign contentious legislation that would ban the state and local governments from hiring...
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