William R. Levesque covers the military, MacDill Air Force Base and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has worked at the Times since 1994. His duties have included covering Florida agriculture, Pinellas courts, the Terri Schiavo case and the trial of the Rev. Henry Lyons. While working for the Lakeland Ledger in the early 1990s, Levesque won numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories about a crop-killing pesticide. He lives in Tampa.

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