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'Black Nativity' holiday show is born again
By Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writer Thursday, December 2, 2010 Angel Hill, Darlene Hall and Allean Huff lend their voices to Black Nativity: A Gospel Song Play at St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater...
View ArticleCrist endorses Greco
Times staff Thursday, December 2, 2010 When Gov. Charlie Crist shucked his GOP registration and announced his independent bid for the U.S. Senate, former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco was there in Straub...
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Tampa Bay weather forecast: Cold, warmer, cold again
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 Frost dusts some plants in a field off of Sydney Washer Road at Highway 60 in Dover. Parts of the Tampa Bay region dropped below...
View ArticlePolice: St. Petersburg man shot in the foot during prescription drug deal
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A 24-year-old St. Petersburg man was shot in the foot Thursday night in an illegal prescription drug deal gone awry,...
View ArticleLargo woman dies after her pickup strikes tree
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 LARGO — A 42-year-old Largo woman died after her pickup truck veered off a road and struck an oak tree, police said.Michelle E. Chisholm...
View ArticleBicyclist recovering after he is struck by car in Clearwater
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 CLEARWATER — A bicyclist was hospitalized after he was struck by a car, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Gregory Fenn, 55, was in...
View ArticleLowry Park Zoo announces $10 million animal hospital, science center
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 TAMPA — A $10 million capital campaign will fund a new animal hospital and animal science center as part of an expansion at the Lowry Park...
View ArticleQuestion about a country singer's sexual orientation leads to a fight
Friday, December 3, 2010 SAFETY HARBOR — People argue about the strangest things.Neighbors Joe Harland Capes and Ronald Richards were in Richards' trailer on Thursday night, "arguing over Conway...
View ArticleMan suspected in Thanksgiving Day double murder denied bail
By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 TAMPA — The ice cream man accused of open firing on a group of men in Ruskin, killing two of them, was denied bail Friday.Michael...
View ArticleIce cream vendor's own trail clearer than that of his attackers
By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 TAMPA — The tip came quickly, leading deputies to arrest an ice cream vendor in a Thanksgiving Day attack that left two dead and...
View ArticlePasco child found at bottom of pool
Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 SHADY HILLS — A 23-month old boy was found at the bottom of an in-ground pool Friday afternoon in northwest Pasco County.Preliminary information indicates...
View ArticleOverturned vehicle backing up northbound side of Howard Frankland
Times staff Friday, December 3, 2010 TAMPA — An overturned vehicle is causing rush-hour traffic to back-up Friday afternoon on the northbound span of the Howard Frankland Bridge, authorities said.The...
View ArticleFormer employee of Outback Steakhouse parent company receives prison time
By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 TAMPA — A federal judge sentenced a former employee of a restaurant corporation to 27 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire...
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Eastbound Ulmerton Road closed after three-car wreck
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 A car sits in a ditch off Ulmerton Road east of Belcher after a two car accident Friday afternoon. LARGO — A three-car wreck Friday has...
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Pregnant woman, unborn child lost in wreck; Ulmerton still closed
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 A car sits in a ditch off Ulmerton Road east of Belcher after a two car accident Friday afternoon. LARGO — A pregnant woman and her unborn...
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Pregnant woman, unborn child die in Largo wreck
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 A car sits in a ditch off Ulmerton Road east of Belcher after a three-car accident Friday afternoon. LARGO — A pregnant woman and her...
View ArticlePasco: Second man charged with molesting girl, now 14 and pregnant
Times staff Friday, December 3, 2010 NEW PORT RICHEY — A second man has been arrested on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl who became pregnant.Nicholas Alexander Hoppes, 19, acknowledged...
View ArticleMan gets 40 years in prison for kidnapping that led to death
By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 LARGO — Abandoned by his family, Abdusbasiyr Blake spent most of his teenage years living in a group foster home.He'll likely spend most of...
View ArticleMan gets 40 years in prison for Oldsmar kidnapping that led to death
By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 LARGO — Abandoned by his family, Abdusbasiyr Blake spent most of his teenage years living in a group foster home.He'll likely spend most of...
View ArticleFormer Tarpon Springs cop accused of child abuse
By Rita Farlow, Times Staff Writer Friday, December 3, 2010 TARPON SPRINGS — A retired Tarpon Springs police officer is accused of injuring a 12-year-old boy Wednesday at the police department's Cops...
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