SPRING HILL -- A woman who drove her van under a school bus kicked,
bit and head-butted troopers when they arrested her on a DUI charge,
Florida Highway Patrol troopers report.
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BROOKSVILLE -- Hernando schools superintendent Wayne Alexander was eliminated from consideration Tuesday night in his bid to lead the Framingham (Mass.) Public Schools, according to the MetroWest Daily News.
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TAMPA -- City officials are closing down northbound Ashley Drive between E. Whiting Street and Kennedy Boulevard until Friday to allow workers to repair a broken four-inch water main, according to the Tampa Downtown Partnership.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- The fireworks display near the Renaissance Vinoy
Resort tonight are part of an organization's meeting at the hotel.
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TAMPA -- Florida's top election official said today the state may
investigate how Hillsborough's former supervisor of elections spent
more than $2-million in federal grant money if ongoing audits don't
come up with the answer.
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BROOKSVILLE –- The prosecution finished its case Tuesday afternoon
against Jaime Marquez in the August armed robbery of a teenage couple
atop an observation tower in Hernando Beach.
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Pinellas County administrator Bob LaSala in a work session today called for a wholesale resizing of county government as Pinellas faces dire revenue forecasts.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- A man was critically injured in a midmorning crash today when his car was T-boned on Gandy Boulevard.
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TAMPA -- Two men in their 20s were arrested Monday night on charges they set fire to a car that one of them owned in order to get rid of the debt.
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TAMPA -- An Aetna network manager was arrested this morning on 27 felony charges of possessing sexually explicit files of children as young as 2, according to police.
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