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Tampa Bay Rays' Sternberg optimistic about business support for new stadium
By Marc Topkin, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010 Teamwork builds playground Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, center, helps move a playground rock wall into place Saturday. He was one of more...
View ArticleVacant house fire an arson, Tampa investigators say
Times staff Saturday, December 18, 2010 TAMPA — Investigators say the fire that caused $20,000 in damage at a vacant home on E Shadowlawn Avenue on Saturday was an arson.Firefighters arrived to douse...
View ArticleGarden hose saves Tampa home, chihuahua Smoky from fire
Times staff Saturday, December 18, 2010 TAMPA — Firefighters plucked a chihuahua named Smoky from a burning house Saturday evening and extinguished flames that started with a clothes dryer. Tampa Fire...
View ArticleTrucker relished the open road for 56 years
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010 SEFFNER — In 1969, Robert "Bones" Mills bought a blue Peterbilt rig with light blue pinstripes, the envy of other over-the-road...
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Woman found dead after fire in St. Petersburg home
By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010 St. Petersburg firefighters and police officers investigate a fire on Saturday night at 5620 Second Avenue N. ST. PETERSBURG — A...
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Behind that panhandler's sign could be a felon with violent past
By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010 Charles, a 49-year-old homeless panhandler who did not give his last name, asks for help from motorists at S Dale Mabry Highway...
View ArticleGoober & Gomer take over St. Petersburg City Hall
By Howard Troxler, Times Columnist Saturday, December 18, 2010 The Times ran an interesting story the other day about an official of the city of St. Petersburg who hired, for personal work on various...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg mayor gets favorable marks in poll
By Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writer Saturday, December 18, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — Amid a deep recession and a pervasive antigovernment mood, city residents give Bill Foster mostly favorable marks...
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'Grandpa Bandit' James Bruce, 74, avoids prison, gets probation for bank...
By Alexandra Zayas, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 James Bruce, now 74, holds hands with his wife, Vickie, before taking a plea deal. TAMPA — Vickie Bruce saw so many police when she...
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Condo fire kills Seminole woman, cat
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 Judy Dunberger died from a fire in her condominium. SEMINOLE — Sometime before Christmas last year, 64-year-old Judy Dunberger's heart...
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Pasco detectives release sketch of burglary suspect
Times staff Monday, December 20, 2010 LAND O'LAKES — Two men broke into a home in the Oaks subdivision this month, expecting it would be empty for the day. Then one of them came face-to-face with a...
View ArticleDonations down, but Salvation Army helps more families
By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 CLEARWATER — The Salvation Army of North Pinellas County doled out thousands of gifts and hundreds of meals Monday as part of a two-day...
View ArticleSpring Hill woman charged with theft of credit cards at church
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 SPRING HILL — A Spring Hill churchgoer found out over the weekend that an unattended purse can be vulnerable even in a house of...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg man beaten after trying to buy iPod, police say
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A 20-year-old St. Petersburg man was beaten and stabbed in a church parking lot Saturday night after meeting with a man...
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Fisherman discovers vehicle mired in muck off St. Petersburg's Coquina Key
By Danny Valentine, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 St. Petersburg Police officers examine a vehicle Monday after raising it from the waters of Big Bayou off Coquina Key after it was...
View ArticlePinellas deputy suffers minor injuries in Clearwater rear-end crash
Times staff Monday, December 20, 2010 CLEARWATER — A Pinellas County's sheriff's deputy suffered minor injuries Monday when his cruiser was struck from behind as he slowed to assist a disabled...
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Live Oaks Preserve in New Tampa uses technology to amp up security
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 The new gate access system for visitors to the Live Oak Preserve community in New Tampa uses remote guards located in Sarasota. NEW...
View ArticleDropped cell phone leads Largo police to would-be robber
By Demorris A. Lee, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 LARGO — A 19-year-old Largo man pulled a gun and attempted to rob a McDonald's employee leaving work Sunday night, police said.But the...
View ArticleSex offender wanted for touching girls at Walmart found injured on Largo golf...
Times staff Monday, December 20, 2010 LARGO — A registered sex offender wanted on charges of groping girls at a Valrico Walmart was found injured on a golf course Monday, police said.Robert Paul Smith,...
View ArticlePolice investigate whether father shares blame in baby's death
By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010 TAMPA — Days after a Tampa woman was charged with killing her 4-month-old daughter, police are trying to figure out if the baby's father also...
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