Today is election day
By Janet Zink, Times Staff Writer Monday, August 23, 2010 TAMPA — It's time to do your civic duty. Today is election day in Florida, giving voters their last chance to help decide the winners of...
View ArticleRays' title chase in 2008 added fans, cut into profits
By Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer Monday, August 23, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — Filling Tropicana Field with screaming fans and cowbells during their 2008 World Series run earned the Tampa Bay Rays...
View ArticleStudents, voters face soggy day with a chance of flooding
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Showers and thunderstorms were expected to dampen the first day of school and Election Day.The storms are expected to bring up to...
View ArticleHurricane Danielle is now a Category 2 storm, still no threat to land
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Hurricane Danielle has grown into a Category 2 storm and is expected to strengthen through the day.The second hurricane of the 2010...
View ArticleVoters are bitter and turnout light as polls open in soggy Tampa Bay
By Andy Boyle and Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writers Tuesday, August 24, 2010 The bitter and expensive primary campaign for governor and U.S. Senate officially ended for several voters Tuesday...
View ArticlePasco woman accused of DUI after crash with deputy
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 HUDSON — A Port Richey woman is accused of drunken driving after running her SUV into the cruiser of a Pasco County sheriff's deputy,...
View ArticleFour-vehicle crash in Tampa Monday sends three to hospital
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 TAMPA — A driver on Nebraska Avenue went into cardiac arrest Monday afternoon setting off a four vehicle crash, according to the...
View ArticleEven lightning doesn't stop voting on rainy Election Day
By Andy Boyle, Jessica Vander Velde and Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writers Tuesday, August 24, 2010 The bitter and expensive primary campaign for governor and U.S. Senate officially ended for...
View ArticleDespite changes, Pinellas reports that first day of school starts without a...
By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — As the clock approached 8:35 a.m., Susan Stritar placed boxes of crayons before 11 kid-sized chairs.Outside her...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg car crash sends one car into porch, two drivers to hospital
By Andy Boyle, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A two-car collision in the rain Tuesday morning sent both drivers to the hospital and one car into a porch, officials...
View ArticleIt's okay, kids: Even Tampa's award-winning teacher feels those first-day...
By Kevin Smetana, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 TAMPA — Before kids took over the hallways at Cleveland Elementary, Megan Allen arrived, her hands full and a smile on her face.The 2010...
View ArticleSteinbrenner to be honored at Yankee Stadium and in Tampa
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 TAMPA — The late Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner III will be honored with a place in New York's Monument Park at Yankee Stadium...
View ArticleEx-TIA chief Louis Miller a finalist to head Atlanta's airport
Times Staff Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Louis Miller, former longtime executive director of Tampa International Airport, is one of three finalists under consideration to run Atlanta's larger...
View ArticleMan stabbed in St. Petersburg after rebuffing woman's sexual advances, police...
By Andy Boyle, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG – A woman who made a sexual advance on an acquaintance outside a liquor store stabbed the man with scissors after he rebuffed...
View ArticleFlorida wins $700 million in federal grant money
Associated Press Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ATLANTA — The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that Florida, eight other states and the nation's capital will get money to reform schools in the second...
View ArticleStudent arrested on first day of school in Hernando
Times staff Tuesday, August 24, 2010 SPRING HILL — The first day of school ended in arrest for an 11-year-old Spring Hill boy after he pulled a knife on a female classmate at Challenger K-8 School of...
View ArticleHernando to detail tough budget decisions in tax-lean times
By Barbara Behrendt, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 BROOKSVILLE — Hernando County officials will take their 2010-11 spending plan on the road again beginning Tuesday with three community...
View ArticleWoman accused of threatening 82-year-old mom with shotgun
By Andy Boyle, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A woman is accused of putting a shotgun to her 82-year-old mother's head and threatening to pull the trigger early...
View ArticleClearwater man hit girlfriend in the head with TV, fan, police say
By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 CLEARWATER — A 24-year-old man is accused of a vicious attack against his live-in girlfriend that sent her to the hospital "covered head to...
View ArticleJury selected, trial begins in stabbing deaths of Masaryktown couple
By Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, August 24, 2010 BROOKSVILLE — After a day and a half of interviews, a 12-person jury has been selected in the trial of a 35-year-old man accused in the...
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