Video takes Pasco County jurors into scene of double homicide
By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 NEW PORT RICHEY — The sounds of life echoed outside the courtroom, heels on a hard hallway floor, muted speech, shuffling steps in the...
View ArticleAgatha Christie plays highlight Ruth Eckerd's 2012-13 Broadway lineup
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Zev Buffman is reaching back into his past for the centerpiece of Ruth Eckerd Hall's 2012-13 Broadway season, announced on Tuesday. The veteran Broadway impresario, in his...
View ArticlePinellas County commissioner wants voters to decide whether to add fluoride...
By Anne Lindberg, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Voters should decide whether the county adds fluoride to its water, Pinellas County Commissioner Neil Brickfield suggested...
View ArticleSuspect in shooting of Seminole clerk extradited from Georgia
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 SEMINOLE — The man charged in the December killing of a convenience store clerk in Seminole was booked into the Pinellas County Jail...
View ArticlePasco School Board criticizes superintendent over communication issues
By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 LAND O'LAKES — Pasco School Board members let loose Tuesday with angry criticism of the way superintendent Heather Fiorentino...
View ArticleOutburst by witness causes mistrial in Tampa murder case
By John Barry, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TAMPA — On the first day of Charles Chambers' murder trial, the brother of his alleged victim shouted from the witness stand. Chambers, he...
View ArticlePasco County keeps ban on LED animated signs
By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 DADE CITY — County commissioners on Tuesday voted to continue the county's ban on animated signs like LED message boards.The prohibition has...
View ArticleUniversity of Florida students injured in hazing incident, university says
By Kim Wilmath, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Not three months after a Florida A&M University student band member died in what police said was hazing, a University of...
View ArticleUniversity of Florida student injured in hazing incident, university says
By Kim Wilmath, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Not three months after a Florida A&M University student band member died in what police said was hazing, a University of...
View ArticleRep. Young asks VA to hasten search for Bay Pines director
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 SEMINOLE — U.S. Rep. C. W. Bill Young is urging the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to speed up the selection of a...
View ArticleMurder trial begins for former Palm Harbor day care owner accused of shaking...
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 LARGO — As the murder trial of Stephanie Spurgeon opened Tuesday, lawyers began their work by questioning dozens of people and selecting...
View ArticleSmokers light up on Gulfport Beach to protest local smoking ban
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 GULFPORT — A small group of cigar aficionados met recently on Gulfport Beach and lit up their favorite smokes. Enjoying cigars was not...
View ArticleBlacked-out windows caused Pasco deputy to pull over man later accused of...
By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TAMPA — Three days before an estranged husband tried to set his wife on fire, authorities said, a deputy had noticed something...
View ArticleSome oxycodone sales are down in Florida, but the street trade still is brisk
By Jamal Thalji and Tia Mitchell, Times Staff Writers Tuesday, February 7, 2012 New laws, tougher enforcement and the prescription drug monitoring database have cut sales of oxycodone from doctors'...
View ArticleMemphis expected to become all-sports member of Big East in 2013
By Greg Auman, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TAMPA — If the last wave of expansion — Boise State, Houston and friends — was a Big East move to survive in football, the latest news is a...
View ArticleWhat's slowing student achievement in Pinellas? Everybody has a theory
By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 7, 2012 It's clear Pinellas County public school students are making less academic progress than their peers in nearly every other big school...
View ArticleRegulators worry gambling loopholes threaten $233 million from Seminole Tribe...
By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — State gambling regulators are in a bind. They have indirectly authorized the expansion of gambling in the...
View ArticleFlorida gambling officials worry loopholes threaten $233M compact with...
By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — State gambling regulators are in a bind. They have indirectly authorized the expansion of gambling in the...
View ArticleTampa woman charged in crackdown on tax fraud
Times staff Tuesday, February 7, 2012 TAMPA — Prosecutors announced the federal indictment Tuesday of a Tampa woman on tax fraud charges. Belinda Brooks, 46, is accused of falsifying her own tax...
View ArticleNo. 8 Florida Gators routed by No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats 78-58
Times wires Tuesday, February 7, 2012 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Florida kept sticking to its strength by shooting from behind the arc. It turned out to be the eighth-ranked Gators' biggest problem. Kenny...
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