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Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Spirits were soaring last year when an airplane manufacturer named ICON opened its new flight center at Peter O. Knight Airport. At [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; JONATHAN CAPRIEL; JEFFREY S. SOLOCHECK; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- A protest over teacher pay that began with about 15 students early this week mushroomed into much [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER DOVER -- They came from advanced placement history and physics, math and English, chemistry and culinary arts. Facing certain punishment, about 15 students at [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Calling it a 'battlefield promotion,' Mayor Bob Buckhorn on Tuesday took the 'interim' from police Chief Brian Dugan's title. Buckhorn called the [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A Tampa woman and a Brandon man were arrested Sunday after they kidnapped a homeless woman and demanded $1,500 from her family, [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Brian Dugan never expected to be here, mingling with Spiderman, Batman and Wonder Woman. A year earlier, he lay in a hospital [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A tip from Facebook led to the arrest of a Tampa man accused of recording himself having sex with a young girl [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A Hillsborough County teacher resigned Friday after she was arrested and charged with having sex with one of her students. Caroline Lawson, [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A Southern heritage group that fought the removal of a local Confederate monument has dropped its defamation lawsuit against local activists who [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; HOWARD ALTMAN; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Monique Williams peered out the right passenger window of a red Hummer cruising southeast Seminole Heights. 'Did you see that?' [...]

Byline: JONATHAN CAPRIEL; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- Two men, including a high school math teacher, were killed Monday in a head-on crash on Morris Bridge Road, deputies [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; LAURA C. MOREL; TIMES STAFF WRITERS It was supposed to be a routine green card renewal for a Thai woman who has called Central Florida home for [...]

Byline: HOWARD ALTMAN; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- When asked Friday if Tampa police believe a serial killer is stalking the residents of Seminole Heights, interim Tampa police [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER NEW PORT RICHEY -- The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is taking steps to turn jail deputies into federal immigration agents. Sheriff Chris Nocco has [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- George 'Terry' Long escaped with his life this spring when his wife's ex-husband tried to gun him down at Plant City's Rocking [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER PLANT CITY -- Hela Garcia and her mother, Gloria Ferrales, sat on folding chairs Monday under a small white tent, taking a brief respite [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER PLANT CITY -- A man fatally shot by Plant City police officers in July came at one in a 'shooting stance' with a glass [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER PLANT CITY -- A man fatally shot by Plant City police officers in July came at one in a 'shooting stance' with a glass [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- It wasn't too long ago, in career terms, that Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee called Col. Chad Chronister into an office and asked [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER Oxalis Garcia finally heard her father's voice on Sunday, when he managed to get through to the mainland four days after Hurricane Maria ravaged [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A charter school teacher was arrested Sunday after, police say, she fired a gun into the ground during a dispute with her [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Jessica Steinbrenner, a top executive with the New York Yankees and a daughter of the team's late owner George Steinbrenner, is seeking [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Brenda Irizarry is worried. By Thursday afternoon, more than 24 hours after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico and tore across [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- As Hurricane Maria swirled in the Atlantic Ocean, Sarykarmen Rivera got a call from her parents in Puerto Rico. They had an [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Matthew Downey and his wife were standing in an alley near their home at Westshore Yacht Club on Saturday night when a [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER When the worst of Hurricane Irma's howling winds subsided, the generators began to emit their telltale drone, like 4,000-watt cicadas emerging from slumber. The [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER It's a forecast authorities can make with confidence: As soon as hurricanes blow through, the scammers emerge and get to work. They say they're [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER As investigators check whether a fire that destroyed Lee Elementary School can be traced to power restoration there, people still in the dark might [...]

Byline: LAURA C. MOREL; SARA DINATALE; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS ST. PETERSBURG -- Certified arborist Mark Michaels tilted his head up to the uprooted tree leaning against the Barcley [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER It's a message storm-weary residents don't want to hear: This active, record-breaking hurricane season is far from over. After two back-to-back, catastrophic cyclones, with [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; MEGAN REEVES; ADAM SMITH; TIMES STAFF WRITERS ST. PETERSBURG -- As his mobile home shook and debris slammed against the walls outside, Robert Franks felt fear. The [...]

Hurricane Irma felled countless trees as it tore through the Tampa Bay area, but only one carried the weight of thousands of wishes. Irma's powerful winds apparently toppled the Florida [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER Stranded with her children as floodwaters rose around her Houston home early Sunday, Maritza Gonzalez Willis sent out a desperate plea on Twitter. 'I [...]

Byline: ANASTASIA DAWSON; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- With one month to go before retirement, Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee joked that there was still one last thing he [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Opposing sides in the legal battle over the Confederate monument in front of the old county courthouse exchanged legal volleys this week, [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER As Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, Kim McIntosh grabbed her cellphone in South Tampa early Sunday and shot her mother a text. The previous night, [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Curtiss Wilson is an 89-year-old Tampa resident who fought in the civil rights movement. But in a 'survey' posted to the Web [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TEMPLE TERRACE -- Travis Malloy was supposed to show up to the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club on Thursday to pick up his [...]

Byline: LANGSTON TAYLOR; TONY MARRERO; DIVYA KUMAR; TIMES STAFF WRITERS It started Thursday at 9:07 a.m., as it does so often these days, with a tweet: 'Sad to see the [...]

Byline: STEVE CONTORNO; CHARLIE FRAGO; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS Without public comment or deliberation, St. Petersburg officials on Tuesday quietly removed an obscure reminder of the Confederacy sitting on [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- One day during the summer of 1984, two friends went camping in New England. One returned, and the other, 25-year-old Christopher Bird, [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; ANASTASIA DAWSON; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- The driver who police say caused a fatal crash that killed a couple and their 8-year-old daughter on the Lee [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER VALRICO -- Betsy Hicka ran into her burning home and spotted her standard poodle Lacey lying by the door. The fluffy white matriarch of [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A 25-year-old Valrico man has been arrested and charged in a fatal crash that killed his passenger last November. Andrew John Wallace [...]

Byline: LANGSTON TAYLOR; TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITERS TAMPA -- The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has begun to alert the public of all missing persons reports, a change from a [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Police have arrested a second man in connection with a fatal shooting during a drug buy at a North Tampa apartment complex [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Two people have been arrested after performing liposuction without a license at a self-described Town 'N Country medical center, causing complications that [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER When people in Tampa Bay went to bed Sunday night, forecasters were calling for a wet Monday. What they weren't calling for was Tropical [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A 20-year-old Tampa man has been arrested and charged with felony murder after a fatal shooting during a drug deal at a [...]

Byline: TONY MARRERO; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- Eddie Carly Colon Soto peeked his head out the broken side window of his van as a SWAT team closed in. Ninety [...]