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Clearwater Mayor George Cretekos, a Republican, has asked for a City Council vote on a resolution asking congress for gun control measures. DOUGLAS CLIFFORD | Tampa Bay Times
Clearwater mayor calls for assault weapons ban: ‘My prayers aren’t working’
However, the Republican’s symbolic resolution will almost certainly fail.
Yesterday• Clearwater
SeaWorld CEO quits after less than a year
This Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows the entrance to SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla. JOHN RAOUX | AP
Gustavo “Gus” Antorcha cited a “difference of approach.”
Yesterday• Business
‘He sold me a dream.’ Ex-girlfriend links Granville Ritchie to 9-year-old murder victim.
Eboni Wiley, left, testifies at the trial of her ex-boyfriend Granville Ritchie who is accused of raping and killing 9-year-old Felecia Williams in 2014. Wiley led the girl to Ritchie, according to the state. Hillsborough Assistant State Attorney Jennifer Johnson, right, questions Wiley in a Hillsborough County Courtroom.Octavi OCTAVIO JONES | Octavio Jones
Eboni Wiley was a friend of Felecia Williams’ family. She told jurors how she brought the girl to the man standing trial for raping and killing the 9-year-old.
Yesterday• Hillsborough
Dr. Delay: Study proves Tampa Bay drivers are among the most reckless in the U.S.
A study found that two of the worst intersections in the country for running red lights are in the Tampa Bay area. Tampa Bay Times
Two intersections are among the worst for running red lights
1 hour ago• Transportation
Josh Hensley was known for dressing as Jack Sparrow. Facebook
Missing paddle boarder, beloved ‘Captain Jack’ of Citrus County, found dead
Joshua Hensley, 43, was found dead Monday morning. He went missing after setting out on a paddle board Saturday.
Yesterday• News
FarmTable Cucina still wows with new chef, revamped menu
Chef James Kirby’s refined Italian dishes lean heavily on vegetables and seafood. | Restaurant review
Yesterday• Food
DNA run through genetic database links Florida man to ‘serial’ slayings
Investigators said the odds are 700-billion-to-1 that the killer is someone other than Robert Hayes. That is 100 times the world’s population.
11 minutes ago• Crime
Detectives: Transgender woman slain, body burned in Florida
The Human Rights Campaign says Slater is at least the 18th transgender woman to be killed in 2019.
Yesterday• Florida
Florida Department of Transportation workers inspect damage to the Interstate 175 overpass at Sixth Street S caused by a roll-off dumpster truck that left its hydraulic arm upright, according to St. Petersburg police. The incident sent concrete falling onto Sixth Street S below. Courtesy St. Petersburg Police Department
Truck with arm left up hits St. Petersburg’s I-175 overpass, closing Sixth Street S
Sixth Street S from Fourth Avenue S to Fifth Avenue S will be closed for up to three weeks for repairs, state officials say.
Yesterday• St. Petersburg
A Florida fourth-grader was bullied by classmates over the Tennessee shirt he created for "college colors day" at his elementary school. Facebook
Teacher overwhelmed by outpouring of support for student bullied over hand-made Tennessee shirt
The care package, scholarship offer and university-sanctioned t-shirt were unexpected. But the high-fives, hugs and pats on the back meant even more.
Yesterday• Education

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Hyde Park to Tampa: Leave our brick streets alone
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Pasco commissioner unlikely to forget his ‘Never Forget’ 9/11 post
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How to do Halloween at these Tampa Bay and Orlando theme parks
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Conservative activist and veteran Anna Paulina Luna is running for Congress against Charlie Crist.
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Tampa Bay restaurant and bar openings: Your Pie brings custom pizza to Brandon, Globe Restaurant does diner fare in Largo
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Chicken cacciatore with a side of rainbow cauliflower at FarmTable Cucina. MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times
FarmTable Cucina still wows with new chef, revamped menu
Chef James Kirby’s refined Italian dishes lean heavily on vegetables and seafood. | Restaurant review
Taylor Bland-Ball, 22, posted this photo and open letter to Judge Thomas Palermo to her Instagram account on September 10, the day after she lost custody of her 4-year-old son Noah McAdams. The boy's parents wanted to treat his leukemia with natural health care remedies instead of chemotherapy. [Instagram] ANASTASIA DAWSON | Instagram
Tampa parents of leukemia patient Noah McAdams find support online after losing custody
The owner of Tampa's last operating segregation-era African-American cemetery has died and his family no longer wants to run it. Memorial Park Cemetery is a segregation era all-black cemetery. JAMES BORCHUCK | Times
With death of owner, future uncertain for Tampa’s troubled Memorial Park Cemetery
Marion Hammer, a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. [News Service of Florida] News Service of Florida
As Florida lawmakers face more pressure on guns, is the NRA up for the fight?
Your picks for Tampa Bay’s best beach/waterfront, brewery/craft beer, cocktail, sports, neighborhood, dive, gay, Irish, live music and restaurant/hotel bars. Shutterstock
2019 tbt* ultimate bar guide: readers’ favorite bars and breweries

VIEWPOINTS

Oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in April 2010. [Associated Press]
Ban drilling off Florida’s Gulf coast forever | Editorial
Yesterday• Opinion
In their political afterlife, former politicians and their staffers are hoarding unspent campaign donations for years and using them to finance their lifestyles, advance new careers and pay family members, an investigation by the Tampa Bay Times, 10News WTSP and TEGNA-owned TV stations found. CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL | Steve Madden
Wake up, Congress. Time to end zombie campaigns | Editorial
Yesterday• Opinion
John Romano - Sports Columnist
John Romano

Sports Columnist

Bad news for Brees in New Orleans could open a door in Tampa Bay
Yesterday• Bucs
Martin Fennelly - Sports columnist
Martin Fennelly

Sports columnist

Fennelly: Lightning’s Maroon brings Stanley Cup full of grit
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Marc Topkin - Rays Reporter
Marc Topkin

Rays Reporter

Tampa Bay Rays owe thanks to Dodgers for Travis d’Arnaud
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Ernest Hooper - Assistant Sports Editor
Ernest Hooper

Assistant Sports Editor

Hooper: Time to start a new chapter, for a new generation
Yesterday• Hillsborough

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

University of Florida student arrested in connection with Walmart parking lot shooting
Yesterday• Crime
Khalil Reed, 24, has been charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, according to a news release from the Gainesville Police Department. Gainesville Police Department
Tampa man arrested after hit-and-run crash that killed motorcyclist on I-75
Yesterday• Hillsborough
Frank Joseph Fischer, 35, was arrested early Monday after he plowed into the back of a motorcyclist on Interstate 75 in Gibsonton, then kept driving, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The motorcyclist, a 23-year-old Riverview man whose name was not immediately released, died at the scene. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office] Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
UF student charged with sexual battery is ‘high-achieving’ leader, released without bail, court records state
Yesterday• Crime
A screen grab of Ian Milaski's most recent Facebook profile picture and his jail mugshot. Facebook/Alachua County Jail
Detectives: Transgender woman slain, body burned in Florida
Yesterday• Florida
Bee Love Slater in Clewiston, Florida. Photo from video/NBC2 News

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Seven-year-old Sriyam Sriadibhatla, who suffers from B acute lymphoblastic leukemia, waits for chemotherapy at Palm Beach Children's Hospital in West Palm Beach. Susan Stocker
They donated to kids with cancer. A Vegas telemarketer cashed in.
A look inside his machine, which turns charitable and political contributions into paydays.
Specialist Patti Gonzales, who teaches reading lessons in small groups, works with Markus Barron at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa on Feb. 6. [OCTAVIO JONES | Times]
A reading riddle: Struggling students are everywhere, but why does Hillsborough County have so many of them?
EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN | Times (03/19/2009) In the woods not far from the current Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, up a dirt road, and up a hill is a small cemetery with 31 unmarked graves. Some of the White House Boys think the bodies of children murdered by guards at the Florida School for Boys are buried in the cemetery. Some of the graves can be attributed to students killed in a 1914 fire. Others can be attributed to a flu epidemic that swept the campus, but not all are accounted for.
They went to the Dozier School for Boys damaged. They came out destroyed.
Anthony DeLuna and Maggie Hoyle-Germann help their son Lincoln, 5, cross the road to find ducks near their home in Lutz in late August. Lincoln has a rare genetic disease which makes it hard for him to move, and impossible to breathe without a ventilator. JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times
After losing hope for a cure, Lincoln DeLuna’s family is living for the moment
Robert Brock, 27, of Mexico Beach, walks westbound on U.S. 98 after Hurricane Michael. Hours after landfall, he and another person were waving flashlights in the dark, looking for someone who could provide power for a disabled woman's breathing machine. DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times
911 calls from Hurricane Michael paint horrifying picture of what it’s like to not evacuate

VIDEOS

Lightning defenseman Braydon Coburn works the Dunkin drive through on Kennedy Boulevard as part of the Lightning Strikes of Kindness promotion on Tuesday in Tampa. The NHL gave the Lightning $100,000 for winning the Presidents Trophy. The Lightning are giving that and much more away in a day-long multi-site giveaway involving players, coaches and executives. DIRK SHADD | Times
Lightning makes appearances throughout the area with strikes of kindness
Lightning players, coaches, alumni and staff “striking” 40 Tampa Bay sites with giveaways and charitable contributions.
A scene from the Bucs game Sunday at Raymond James Stadium or the new Joker movie? Warner Bros.
Buccaneers-49ers AfterMath: No one’s laughing
This image is a 3D laser scan of Robles Park Village showing grave-shaped objects beneath the ground in relation to buildings at the public housing complex. The single image is made from two data sources and aligns with historical maps of the former Zion Cemetery. Cardno
Radar finds more than 120 coffins buried beneath Tampa apartment complex
Hurricane Dorian seen from a camera outside the International Space Station. NASA
NASA cameras show Dorian as it churns over northwestern Bahamas
Peggy Van Gorder, 53, of St. Petersburg redies herself prior to driving through a gate that will lead her and survey partner Beth Koehler, 60, onto a levy in the Everglades. CHRIS URSO | Times CHRIS URSO | TIMES | Tampa Bay Times
Two women from St. Petersburg like to hunt pythons in the Everglades. We went with them.

News

DNA run through genetic database links Florida man to ‘serial’ slayings
Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, Fla., speaks during a news conference on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in West Palm Beach. Palm Beach County Sheriff's officials said they arrested Robert Hayes for first degree murder in Rachel Bey's death. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) BRYNN ANDERSON | AP
Hyde Park to Tampa: Leave our brick streets alone
Old Augusta bricks pave the road on West Bay Street in the Spanishtown Creek section of Hyde Park. ALLIE GOULDING | Times
Pasco commissioner unlikely to forget his ‘Never Forget’ 9/11 post
Conservative activist and veteran Anna Paulina Luna is running for Congress against Charlie Crist.
Dr. Delay: Study proves Tampa Bay drivers are among the most reckless in the U.S.
Valrico woman wounded by man who killed himself in murder-suicide attempt, deputies say
‘He sold me a dream.’ Ex-girlfriend links Granville Ritchie to 9-year-old murder victim.
Florida doesn’t track how many teachers have volunteered to be armed
SeaWorld CEO quits after less than a year
Lakewood High freshman, 15, threatened to 'shoot up the class’
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Sports

Colin Kaepernick was the 49ers starting quarterback at one point, then his kneeling for the national anthem created controversy. AP
NFL teams need quarterbacks, but Colin Kaepernick isn’t one
Sports on TV/radio for Tuesday, Sept. 17
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees leaves the field after their loss against the Los Angeles Rams during an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. Brees left the game after being hurt in the first half. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ | AP
Bad news for Brees in New Orleans could open a door in Tampa Bay
Clearwater Academy International's Ajou Ajou makes a reception while working through a passing drill in April. CAI faces American Collegiate on Friday. DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times
HomeTeam Hot List: Pinellas hosts two big swim meets
Quarterback Kyle Trask (11) winds up to pass during the third quarter of the Orange and Blue Debut at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville. TAMPA BAY TIMES
Florida Gators to use Kyle Trask and Emory Jones with Feleipe Franks out
The Rays' Travis d'Arnaud drives in three runs with a bases-loaded double during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ | AP
Tampa Bay Rays owe thanks to Dodgers for Travis d’Arnaud
HomeTeam 15: Football rankings for Tampa Bay
Florida Gators’ Feleipe Franks out six months with dislocated/fractured ankle
USF’s Sept. 28 home game vs. SMU to kick off at 4
Jim McElwain: Florida Gators’ Kyle Trask will ‘make the most of his opportunity’
Tim Tebow draws national criticism after saying collegiate athletes shouldn’t be paid
Fennelly: Lightning’s Maroon brings Stanley Cup full of grit
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Arts & Entertainment

How to do Halloween at these Tampa Bay and Orlando theme parks
To celebrate the 20th year of Howl-O-Scream, Busch Gardens is bringing back icons, the characters that matched the theming of each event. That includes, from left, Dr. Livingsdoom, the event's first icon in 2000 who was in the Haunted Jungle Trail, Death Jockey, Trickster, Voodoo Queen and the Butcher. Howl-O-Scream opens Friday. Busch Gardens
Tampa Bay restaurant and bar openings: Your Pie brings custom pizza to Brandon, Globe Restaurant does diner fare in Largo
Opened in Brandon last week, Your Pie's signature 10-inch rounds are baked in a brick oven in less than four minutes. Your Pie
SoundBytes: Buddy Guy, Art Garfunkel, Patterson Hood and more
AP’s transphobic Sam Smith story exposes journalism’s failings
Is Wrinkles the Clown real? Documentary explores creepy Florida clown
Things to do in Pasco and Hernando counties starting Sept. 13
Things to Do in Pasco and Hernando counties starting Sept. 20
Here’s your last chance to see Disney’s Epcot IllumiNations fireworks
Ric Ocasek, Eddie Money: ’80s heroes nailed it in their own voices
Top things to do in Tampa Bay for Tuesday, Sept. 17
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