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  1. Hernando detectives investigating shooting in Weeki Wachee

    05/23/13 CrimeTimes staff

    Weeki Wachee

    Deputies investigate shooting; man injured

  2. FBI seizes cellphones from lawyer, Tampa cop in DUI scandal

    05/23/13 CourtsBy Jessica Vander Velde and Sue Carlton, Times Staff Writers

    TAMPA — Grisham-like allegations that lawyers set up an opposing attorney for a DUI arrest mid trial heated up Thursday when federal agents seized the cellphones of a lawyer and a Tampa police sergeant.

  3. Aging party mansion built by Gary Sheffield heads to auction

    05/23/13 Real Estate By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer

    ST. PETERSBURG — When Gary Sheffield, once one of baseball's highest-paid players, built his multimillion-dollar party mansion in Pinellas Point in 1997, he aimed for that special tier of excess few but pro athletes can afford.

  4. Death of friend of Boston Marathon suspect shocks, scares Orlando neighbors

    05/23/13 Human Interest By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau

    KISSIMMEE — Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in a modest gated community here.

  5. USF eyes degree programs for termination

    05/23/13 CollegeBy Stephanie Hayes, Times Staff Writer

    TAMPA — In tight financial times, Florida universities have been told to comb degree programs to figure out which ones work, which ones need help and which ones need to go.

  6. Rabbi Frank Sundheim, a musician and scholar, dies at 81

    05/23/13 ObituariesBy Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer

    TAMPA — In 1986, Rabbi Frank Sundheim stepped down from his full-time pastorate at Congregation Schaarai Zedek, where he had served for 20 years.

  7. Pasco sheriff, judge trade ideas to address jail overcrowding

    05/23/13 Local Government By Jon Silman, Times Staff Writer

    There was a milestone at the Pasco County jail on Tuesday night. With 1,550 inmates, the facility had its highest head count ever. That's 374 more prisoners than the number of permanent beds on the first two floors of the facility.

  8. Holiday home with 28 pets filled with flies, feces, neighbor says

    05/23/13 Public Safety By Alex Orlando, Times Staff Writer

    HOLIDAY — The beige stucco house was unassuming from the outside. A pink, flowered "Welcome" sign hung from one of the eaves in front, and a Rays sticker was posted in a window. In the first lot of a quiet, dead-end street, neighbors say the people they saw living there were equally subdued. Until someone got …

  9. Sue Carlton: The girl, the grownups and the prom that wasn't

    05/23/13 EducationBy Sue Carlton, Times Columnist

    The twisted tale of the prom and the parent, the principal and the teacher, and in the end, the police, had some great teachable moments.

    Mostly for grownups.

  10. Brooksville man gets life sentence in May 2012 burglary, battery

    05/23/13 CriminalBy Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer

    BROOKSVILLE — In a last-ditch effort to keep his brother from spending the rest of his life in prison, William Glover took the stand and confessed one more time.