U.S. savings bonds will go paperless on Jan. 1
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 This is your last chance to tuck a U.S. savings bond inside your child's Christmas stocking or mail a birthday bond to a...
View ArticleNancy Argenziano sues to block part of Florida's new election law
By Tia Mitchell and Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, December 9, 2011 TALLAHASSEE — Former state Sen. Nancy Argenziano filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that...
View ArticleTampa woman shot in face supports gunman's bid for reduced sentence
By John Barry, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 TAMPA — Ian Manuel was 15 when he sent a letter from prison to the woman he had shot in the face two years earlier in 1990. The boy had drawn...
View ArticleMother of man murdered in Plant City seeks answers
By Stephanie Wang, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 PLANT CITY — The phone rings, and she can't ignore it.For a month, 53-year-old Patricia Haynes has been piecing together her son's death...
View ArticleJ.D. Alexander pursues major inquiry into university system
By Kim Wilmath, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 TAMPA — J.D. Alexander isn't backing down.Weeks after calling for an investigation into the leadership at the University of South Florida,...
View ArticleState economists can't give firm estimate of gambling proposal's impact
By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, December 9, 2011 TALLAHASSEE — If three destination resort casinos are constructed in Florida as envisioned in a bill before lawmakers, the...
View ArticleMan graduates USF despite crippling disease
By Michael Kruse, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 He wheeled out of his room early Friday, down a wooden ramp and through the garage to the driveway and onto a mechanical lift attached to...
View ArticleFugitive for two decades nabbed after trying to get ID in Bradenton
By William R. Levesque, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 BRADENTON — Facing years in prison in the late 1980s, former Bradenton resident Christine Dickinson simply vanished.As a suspected...
View ArticleYoung driver in St. Pete Beach DUI-manslaughter case sentenced to 21 years
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 LARGO — Daniel Dalton Dolcater is a kind and caring young man with a future, his friends and family members said Friday.But here's the...
View ArticleInvestment salesmen given prison time
Times Staff Friday, December 9, 2011 TAMPA — Four men were sentenced to federal prison Friday for their part in the fraud scheme led by boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman. Michael J. Crudele, 50, of...
View ArticleRecords trace last hours of Tampa man whose body found in trunk
By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 9, 2011 TAMPA — James Sheets III told investigators he had dinner with 79-year-old real estate developer Henry Shell, then dropped him at a...
View ArticleNo. 12 Florida Gators' inside-out game crushes Rider 90-69
Times wires Friday, December 9, 2011 JACKSONVILLE — It was a pick-your-poison game for Rider on Friday night against No. 12 Florida. Most of the time, the Broncs made the wrong choice. The Gators...
View ArticleMissing 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's is found safe
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 TAMPA — A 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease was located on Saturday, less than a day after she went missing.Evelyn Roig...
View Article13-year-old girl hit by pickup in front of Largo skating rink
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 LARGO — A 13-year-old girl was seriously injured late Friday as she crossed the street in front of a skating rink.The incident...
View ArticleWoman arrested, motorcyclist seriously injured in St. Petersburg hit-and-run
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG — A St. Petersburg woman is accused of leaving the scene of a crash late Friday that hospitalized a motorcyclist with...
View ArticlePinellas deputies arrest 21 at DUI checkpoints
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 Pinellas County deputies arrested 21 people at two checkpoints late Friday and early Saturday in attempt to get drunk drivers off the...
View ArticleDade City hunter shot after dog bumps high-powered rifle
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 WESLEY CHAPEL — A 78-year-old man was shot in a bizarre accident early Saturday when a dog bumped a loaded rifle and caused it to...
View ArticleHunter gets shot in the leg by his own dog
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 WESLEY CHAPEL — A 78-year-old man was shot in a bizarre accident early Saturday when a dog bumped a loaded rifle and caused it to...
View ArticleSwingers club in Seffner neighborhood shut down by sheriff's deputies
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 SEFFNER — Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives shut down a swingers club operating in a Seffner rental house Friday and...
View ArticleSwingers club in Seffner neighborhood shut down by sheriff's detectives
By Shelley Rossetter and Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 10, 2011 SEFFNER — Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives say they shut down a swingers club in a Seffner rental house...
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