GAINESVILLE — There was a point at the end of the first half of Friday night's game against Troy when Florida sophomore guard Erving Walker was really kicking himself. He was 0-for-15 from the field, including the previous game.
"I was like … when is the next one (going to fall)?" Walker said. The answer came in the second half.
TAMPA — An 18-year-old is in serious condition at Tampa General Hospital and another is in jail after police say the pair were trying to steal a bicycle until one got hit by a car trying to get away.
According to Tampa Police, Demarcus Williams left his bike in the front yard of 2304 Curtis St. and when he returned he saw two men running away with it. Williams chased the pair to the intersection of N 24th Street and Osborne Avenue.
LARGO — Threats, evil stares, whispered taunts — these are common in the long hallways of the Pinellas Criminal Courts Complex, especially in the tense hours when families are waiting for a verdict in a murder case.
Not this time.
Before the jury on Friday night declared Bruce Lee Watts guilty of murdering Amy Alice Norris, the family of the shooter approached the family of the woman he shot, with help from a Pinellas deputy. They offered condolences.
TAMPA — Between stops in his globe-trotting life as an Internet mogul, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came to Ybor City on Friday to launch a new Web site that offers a wide range of resources for the homeless in the Tampa Bay area.
The new site, tampabayhome less.wikia.com, was introduced after the Hillsborough Homeless Coalition's annual meeting at Teatro on Seventh, a restaurant on Eighth Avenue.
ST. PETERSBURG — Mayor Rick Baker and the City Council really wanted a new luxury hotel downtown.
When a swanky hotel chain stepped forward with an offer, they sold the developer a prime public lot downtown even though the company could not pay the city's asking price up front. City officials granted the company a $1.5 million IOU to close the deal.
TAMPA — Anyone seeking evidence of the deep social divide between the city of Tampa and Hillsborough County need look no further than the City Council's vote Thursday to expand its human rights ordinance to prohibit discrimination against transgendered people.
The policy applies to organizations throughout the city.
The location was odd enough. An anonymous caller reported seeing a dead Florida panther by the side of the Florida Turnpike near Yeehaw Junction. That's more than 150 miles north of where most panthers live.
When Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staffers checked out the tip Thursday afternoon, they discovered something more disturbing.
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