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Video: Jury sides with Bubba in trial vs Schnitt

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Video: Help sought in identifying convenience store robbers

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Lazaro Arbos' American Idol audition and previous story about him

When Lazaro Arbos auditioned for American Idol, he was familiar to several folks with ties to the Tampa Bay area. Lazaro was part of a Times story in 2004 called Sean's echo. It told how the parents of another child who stuttered were able to help Lazaro when their own son, Sean, died at age 10. They donated the device that had helped their son with his stammer to Lazaro. 

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Voicemails: Manti Te'o releases 'Lennay Kekua' calls

Manti Te'o recounted the whole, strange episode of the alleged hoax he was incolved in with a ficticious girlfriend in an interview with Katie Couric that was broadcast Thursday. He also released three voicemails that were reportedly from the fake girlfriend. TMZ has obtained the voicemails. You can listen below.

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Jill Kelley, Tampa socialite connected to Petraeus scandal, ends her silence

Jill Kelley, the woman who unwittingly triggered a scandal that ended the career of former CIA director David Petraeus, ended a long silence Tuesday, excoriating the media and Petraeus’ former mistress for upending her family’s life. In an interview with The Daily Beast and an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Kelley Tuesday took issue with everything from how she was portrayed as a “romantic rival” for Petraeus’ affections to media staking out her Bayshore Boulevard home. The comments are Kelley’s first since the scandal broke in November.

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Florida's vanishing springs

 Read the Times investigation into the health of Florida's springs here.

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Video: A master chocolatier at work

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Video: Throwback golf at the Hickory championship

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Photo gallery: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Spectators lined the street with folding chairs and boxes. Some sat along the curb. Around Tampa Bay, people gathered to pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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Photo gallery: Presidential inauguration

President Barack Obama is sworn in for four more years in a simple ceremony at the White House, embarking on a second-term quest to restore a still-shaky economy and combat terrorists overseas while swearing an age-old oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. We have full text of Obama's remarks here And to read the inaugural poem, go here.

 

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Photos: Gasparilla Children's Parade

See photos from the Gasparilla Children's Parade.

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Audio: President's second oath of office

President Barack Obama’s first full day in office, a Tampa Bay Times reporter served as one of the pool reporters for the White House  press corps, which meant he covered all the president’s events and shared reports about them for the rest of the news media. Late in the day, he and the other pool reporters were summoned into the White House Map room for an unannounced event, marked “urgent.” Here is the audio of Obama's second, official oath of office. 

 

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Video: Sen. Nelson joins Florida’s 2013 Python Challenge

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Video: Tampa Bay Times reporting featured in Today Show piece on Scientology

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In a video about Hollywood director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis' decision to leave the church, the Times' coverage of the Church of Scientology is featured prominently.

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