New Port Richey police name suspect in murder-suicide
Times Staff Tuesday, February 12, 2013NEW PORT RICHEY – Police have identified the suspect of a murder-suicide in a quiet, school-side neighborhood Monday.They say Rex Shelton, 56, left work that...
View ArticlePinellas to vote later this month on placing transit tax on November 2014 ballot
By Anna M. Phillips, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013The Pinellas County Commission will vote Feb. 26 on whether to place a sales tax increase for major transit changes on the ballot in...
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Crash in St. Petersburg injures one, flips vehicle
By Meredith Rutland, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013A crash on Central Avenue Tuesday morning ended with an overturned car and minor injuries.ST. PETERSBURG — A crash on Central Avenue...
View ArticleWaste Management to refund city of Tampa $1.2 million for overpayments
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013TAMPA — Waste Management will refund $1.2 million to the city of Tampa for overpayments the city made from 2008 to 2012, officials...
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Seminole veterinarian's crusade to change law is born of loss
By Anne Lindberg, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013Dr. Kenneth Newman poses with Gracie, left, and Sunshine. In 2008 a driver backed her car into Newman and Gracie, fatally injuring the dog...
View ArticleHernando officials examine chicken proposal
By Barbara Behrendt, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013BROOKSVILLE — A proposed ordinance that would allow chickens in residential neighborhoods of Hernando County ruffled some feathers...
View ArticleLargo Library upgrading equipment to keep things running smoothly
By Piper Castillo, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013LARGO — Crystal Osinoski maneuvered the stroller carrying her daughter, Agatha, through the children's wing of the Largo Library. As she...
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Madeira Beach ordinance holds landlords liable for nuisance activities
By Sheila Mullane Estrada, Times Correspondent Tuesday, February 12, 2013Incoming City Commissioner Elaine Poe gets credit for the effort.MADEIRA BEACH— Landlords beware.If tenants engage in crime or...
View ArticleMan's feet caught in forklift; emergency workers free him
Times staff Tuesday, February 12, 2013ST. PETERSBURG — St. Petersburg emergency workers freed a man Tuesday afternoon after he was trapped by a forklift. The victim, whose name has not been released,...
View ArticleSweetheart Home Tour is part of Heritage Day Festival
Tuesday, February 12, 2013BROOKSVILLE2 historic homes, wine tasting are part of tourThe Historic Hernando Preservation Society will host a Sweetheart Home Tour as part of the Heritage Day Festival on...
View ArticleDays after SWAT raid, wanted man found in Hudson
Times staff Tuesday, February 12, 2013HUDSON — Three days after the SWAT team busted into a Moon Lake home in search of Aaron Lynn Vineyard, deputies caught up with him at a friend's home in Beacon...
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Sideshow takes center stage at state fair
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013TAMPA — It took Tommy Breen three years to learn how to swallow a sword.In the decade since, he has had few injuries, none...
View ArticlePinellas moves closer to closing an elementary charter school
By Cara Fitzpatrick, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013Imagine Charter School St. Petersburg appeared again before the Pinellas County School Board Tuesday, fighting to stay open despite...
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Clearwater woman celebrates 100th birthday
By Nova Beall, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013Thelma Aldene Brocious Heath celebrated at Horizon Bay.Thelma Aldene Brocious Heath of Clearwater celebrated her 100th birthday with family...
View ArticleThird case reported in Hernando of someone impersonating a police officer
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013Be careful.That's what the Hernando County Sheriff's Office is telling motorists after receiving a third report in the past 10 days of a...
View ArticleTrial begins for St. Pete man accused of beating, running over girlfriend
Times Staff Tuesday, February 12, 2013The trial of Oliver Samuels, accused of killing his former girlfriend, began Tuesday.He and Elfleter Bolden had dated for six months before she broke up with him...
View ArticleBayfront Medical Center vote could be next week
By Letitia Stein, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013ST. PETERSBURG — The sale of Pinellas County's last independent hospital to a for-profit hospital chain could be sealed as soon as next...
View ArticleMud-bogging promoter tries to tap stream of corporate welfare
By Dan DeWitt, Times Columnist Tuesday, February 12, 2013I wonder where Mike Barbee got the idea that he didn't have to play by the rules.I wonder why he thought he could hold his events on a farm near...
View ArticleShock Jock trial an insult to all attorneys -- and the public
By Sue Carlton, Times Columnist Tuesday, February 12, 2013In every profession, there is the worst thing one of its members can be accused of, the ugliest allegation that can splash mud on all members...
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Anti-Valentine's Dance for Pasco teens should be a real bash
By Megan Hussey, Times Correspondent Tuesday, February 12, 2013Teens put their own twist on Valentine’s Day decorations for last year’s Anti-Valentine’s Dance at the Land O’Lakes Library. The free...
View ArticleDisabled truck slows rush-hour traffic from downtown Tampa
Times staff Tuesday, February 12, 2013TAMPA — A semitrailer broke down on an Interstate 275 on-ramp Tuesday afternoon, slowing traffic out of downtown during rush hour.The truck broke down on the ramp...
View ArticleCar-sharing comes to USF St. Petersburg
By Lisa Gartner, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2013Pinellas County's first car-sharing service launched Tuesday in St. Petersburg, where officials say a younger, denser downtown has created...
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