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Police say a gun found by a 9-year-old boy inside a bathroom stall at a movie theater in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood belonged to a Hillsborough County deputy.

The niece I used to drive to the beach in the summertime when she was a kid drove me across the Sunshine Skyway herself the other day, crossing that monster bridge without fear, chatting about job interviews and apartment rents and such.

Matt James of Lowry Park Zoo explains the day's tasks to volunteers from Kelapo Coconut Oil, a Tampa-based company whose employees will return three more times during the firm's yearlong sponsorship of the elephant exhibit.

SP_329023_SHAD_sink_02 Alex Sink, the Democratic candidate for governor, speaks to the St. Petersburg Times editorial board.

Hiring Paul Anderson and Raul Alfonso from the Port of Jacksonville just got $54,600 more expensive.

The organizations participating are: St. Pete for Peace, Veterans for Peace, Occupy Tampa, Friends of Human Rights, NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, Tampa Light Brigade, The Refuge, St. Petersburg Green Party, Peace and Freedom Party of Florida, Green Shadow Cabinet and Poor People's Economic Rights Campaign.

A Lutz woman who enriched her church and other pet causes by misappropriating $824,301 from Citicorp Financial Services will serve two years in a minimum security prison.

The Port of Tampa generates $15.1 billion in annual statewide economic value and more than 80,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Ireland Nugent has taken her first steps with her new prosthetic feet. The two-year old, and her family were in Orlando yesterday at Prosthetic and Orthotic Associates to give the new feet a trial run, and everyone was surprised how easily Ireland adapted to them.

Tampa Police are looking for 41-year-old Tiffany Ritter-Posada, who they believe to be a potential witness in the case of Brando Masquero's murder.

The San Diego District Attorney's Office already filed charged against McLeod last week.

South Tampa neighborhoods are marshaling their residents against the proposed SoHo Flats apartments, with some organizers even looking into chartering a bus to take opponents to Thursday night's City Council hearing.

The Farm Bill in the House that likely will win support this week would cut $20.5 billion from the food stamp program over 10 years, taking almost 2 million recipients off the food stamp rolls, as estimated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Two men from the Tampa Bay area are among the 41 people authorities arrested this month during an undercover sting targeting online child predators, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

The Observer Media Group Inc. has entered a partnership with the Tampa Bay Times to combine their respective weekly newspapers in Plant City into a new weekly - The Plant City Times & Observe r.

Tampa police say an Apollo Beach woman was struck and killed over the weekend when she tried to run across the Courtney Campbell Causeway.

A medical examiner's report concludes that a man found dead at a Tampa motel is a homicide victim.

A jewelry kiosk in University Mall recorded hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales during September 2011.

Deputies are searching for two suspects who pried open and burglarized 72 storage units at a facility in Tampa.

Seven may be Ruben Perry's lucky number. The father of 7 is saved from his burning car by 7 Tampa Police Officers just in time for Father's Day.