PETA to protest before Ringling Bros. circus show Wednesday at the Tampa Bay...
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 TAMPA — The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans a protest as the circus prepares for its opening show...
View ArticleWater main break in Tampa closes 900 block of S West Shore Boulevard
Times staff Tuesday, January 3, 2012 TAMPA — The 900 block of S West Shore Boulevard has been closed while city water department crews repair a broken water main. Traffic is being detoured around the...
View ArticlePinellas deputies announce arrest in Seminole food store clerk's death
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 SEMINOLE — An arrest has been made in the murder of a food store clerk killed during a robbery last week, according to the Pinellas County...
View ArticlePinellas sheriff says Georgia man shot Seminole food mart clerk without warning
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 SEMINOLE — Darius Diquan Bussey shot first, deputies said, then jumped over the convenience store counter and pistol-whipped the clerk,...
View ArticleDelayed notices causing garbage pickup headaches across Hernando County
By Barbara Behrendt, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 BROOKSVILLE — Hundreds of frustrated Hernando County residents awaiting word on the new days for their garbage pickups flooded Republic...
View ArticleWoman who died in skydiving accident identified as St. Petersburg doctor
Times staff Tuesday, January 3, 2012 ZEPHYRHILLS — A woman who died while skydiving New Year's Day was identified Tuesday as Dr. T. Elaine McLaughlin, 60, of Gulfport, a well-known family practice...
View ArticlePolice: Teens who robbed woman in Clearwater had silencers on their guns
By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 CLEARWATER — Police are looking for two teenagers who robbed a woman at gunpoint Monday night.According to Clearwater police, two teens on...
View ArticleTampa's 'Cigarette Bandit' hits 15th convenience store
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 TAMPA — A man police call the "Cigarette Bandit" struck for the 15th time early Tuesday, stealing 68 cartoons of cigarettes from a South...
View ArticleHillsborough Kids executive Rainey resigns amid state scrutiny of agency's...
By John Barry, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 3, 2012 TAMPA — Jeff Rainey has resigned as CEO of Hillsborough Kids Inc., the embattled nonprofit agency charged with protecting 2,500 of...
View ArticleWaterfront seafood, Florida fare highlight newest restaurants of 2012
By Laura Reiley, Times Food Critic Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Only three days old and already 2012 is wearing his big-boy pants: Restaurant openings are coming fast and furiously, with all-new concepts,...
View ArticleOSHA accepts settlement with company whose worker died in Weedon Island collapse
By Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — Federal investigators have accepted a $7,300 settlement with a demolition company whose worker was killed during a...
View ArticleShopper struck by stun gun in New Tampa Walmart
By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 TAMPA — Police want to talk to two women who may have shocked a shopper with a stun gun on New Year's Day inside a New Tampa...
View ArticleUSS Narcissus, Civil War shipwreck off Egmont Key, could become Florida's...
By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 TAMPA — The Civil War tugboat was named for a mythological Greek youth mesmerized by his own reflection in a pool. But for 146 years,...
View ArticleFugitive Tampa Bay businessman says he is being treated unfairly
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 TAMPA — It has been three weeks since a judge issued a warrant for the arrest of prominent Tampa Bay businessman John Stanton for...
View ArticleFresh off Iowa win, Mitt Romney shifts Florida campaign into high gear
By Marc Caputo, Miami Herald Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Mitt Romney is blanketing Florida with ads and mailers. Newt Gingrich is planning a Miami-Orlando trip next week. Ron Paul is sending out...
View ArticleNew election maps could hurt Allen West, other GOP incumbents
By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Wednesday, January 4, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Florida's new redistricting standards, coupled with the 10-year shift in population, have forced...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott signs death warrant for killer of St. Petersburg woman
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — Thirty-two years ago this month, Deborah Kammerer was found dead on the beach. She had been raped, brutally beaten and...
View ArticleEarly trends with red-light cameras are different for Tampa and St. Petersburg
By Richard Danielson and Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writers Wednesday, January 4, 2012 The contrast is not quite as stark as red versus green, but red-light cameras are off to markedly different...
View ArticleRick Santorum's new challenge: money and organization
By Alex Leary and Adam C. Smith, Times Staff Writers Wednesday, January 4, 2012 MANCHESTER, N.H. Rick Santorum, the surprise darling of the Iowa caucus, pivoted to New Hampshire on Wednesday and...
View ArticleBusinessman offers Hillsborough a bargain building — with a catch
By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, January 4, 2012 TAMPA — Hillsborough County used the last real estate downturn in the early 1990s to snatch up a stylish new high-rise on the cheap to...
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