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07/19/11 RICHARD MARTIN St. Petersburg Times TAMPA -- Recent studies have shown that heavy doses of caffeine might help prevent or delay the symptoms ...
07/07/11 By Mark Puente, Times staff writer Thursday, July 7, 2011 Samuel Boutros, 26, a lifelong St. Petersburg resident, bought the building at 475 Central Ave. from George Rahdert, a developer who also is an attorney for the St. Petersburg Times . The goal is to find an upscale restaurant for the building's first floor, Boutros said. Boutros declined to disclose the selling price. The figure has not ...
07/07/11 By Mark Puente, Times Staff Writer Thursday, July 7, 2011 The Kress building, a historic property in downtown St. Petersburg, recently changed owners and is being marketed toward upscale restaurateurs. Samuel Boutros, 26, a lifelong St. Petersburg resident, bought the building at 475 Central Ave. from George Rahdert, a developer who also is an attorney for the St. Petersburg Times . The goal is ...
07/05/11 State Rep. Will Weatherford , R-Wesley Chapel, sat down for a wide-ranging, one-hour conversation with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board this morning. The future House speaker has a busy summer going as he chairs the House redistricting committee and attends public hearings across the state. He covered a number of hot topics. Here are the highlights: The redisctricting process: "It's ...
07/01/11 After months of debate, waiting and wondering, the announcement was made today: Gov. Rick Scott will allow SunRail to go forward. It was good news for some, and unhappy news for others. The St. Petersburg Times online at tampabay.com called the decision "an affront to [Scott's] tea party base." The ...
06/30/11 Above: Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn , left, talks with Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg at Tropicana Field on Monday. Photo: James Borchuck, St. Petersburg Times Wake up and good morning . I happened to be in Miami a few days ago. It's one thing to look from afar at the greater Miami area's lousy economic statistics of high unemployment and housing woes. It is very different to be there for ...
06/28/11 Boy allergic to peanuts has dog to sniff out danger ELISABETH PARKER St. Petersburg Times TAMPA -- Billy Gensel doesn't open doors or shake ha ...
06/25/11 When a tow-truck driver was trapped beneath a tire of his truck in February, it wasn't an ambulance or the police that saved him. Instead, it was 6-foot-3 University of San Francisco lineman Danous Estenor who rescued the man. "I just see his legs," Estenor told the St. Petersburg Times. "The car is crushing him. He's not moving. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God, this guy is going to die.' I tried to lift ...
06/16/11 By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Thursday, June 16, 2011 St. Petersburg Times staff writer Tom Jones offers up his Two Cents on the world of sports. Confusion of the day Last week Dick Vitale's wife, Lorraine , was doing a Google search on her husband's name and noticed a letter to the editor in the Conway (N.H.) Daily Sun that said something about the Conway School District superintendent ...
06/15/11 Our friends over at the Gradebook blog have uncovered an interesting angle on homeschooling: A Seminole law firm is offering legal services. You could find your homeschooling plans derailed by divorce or on the wrong end of a social services case, they said. In response to a column in the St. Petersburg Times about homeschooling , the law firm of David Gibbs emailed the writer information about ...
06/10/11 Times Staff Writer Friday, June 10, 2011 The Truth-O-Meter is in New Jersey. PolitiFact New Jersey is the ninth state partnership for PolitiFact.com , the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website of the St. Petersburg Times . The site was launched Friday by the Star-Ledger of Newark, the largest newspaper in New Jersey and the third in the Advance Publications chain to partner with ...
06/01/11 Well, so much for everybody getting together for a workout with the Vikings ' new quarterback. On the second day of workouts at the IMG Madden Football Academy in Bradenton, Florida, quite a few Vikings' veterans that were said to have been going to the workouts ended up not showing after all. According to Greg Auman of the St. Petersburg Times, who has been working as a stringer of sorts for ...
05/30/11 A driver license office in Plant City will close permanently this week, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
05/28/11 Former Tupelo Superintendent Randy Shaver is among at least 13 candidates who have applied to become the next Florida education commissioner, according to a report by the St.Petersburg Times.
05/27/11 A sampling of front page headlines in Florida today: St. Petersburg Times : $615,000,000; The governor knifes a record sum out of the budget. Miami Herald : Scott vetoes a record $615M; Rick Scott vetoed a record amount of spending at a campaign-style event that some Democrats were forbidden from attending. Orlando Sentinel : Governor's vetoes rile legislators; Line-item cuts total $615.3M Palm ...
05/26/11 Tampa Bay Buccaneeers cornerback Aqib Talib is expected to be indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a Dallas County grand jury, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday, citing Texas law enforcement authorities.
05/23/11 By Aaron Sharockman, Times Staff Writer Monday, May 23, 2011 Gov. Rick Scott's elections chief is defending a law that reduces the number of days for early voting, arguing that polling places will stay open the same number of hours they are now. Yes, fewer days, Secretary of State Kurt Browning wrote in a Monday guest column in the St. Petersburg Times . But longer hours on those days. "The ...
05/20/11 We wouldn't normally be referencing a story about a mayor's race in Jacksonville (even if it was a doozy). But these two graphs from this morning's St. Petersburg Times story are worth repeating: The race was not a referendum on Scott, Beattie noted, but the deep cuts to education that Scott and the Legislature worked on during the legislative session helped drive much of the campaign debate ...
05/16/11 About as soon as the St. Petersburg Times' article on Charles G. Koch's suspicious $1.5 million donation to Florida State University's economics department went online this past Tuesday, May 10, FSU students were getting outraged on their social networks of choice.
05/12/11 By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer Thursday, May 12, 2011 St. Petersburg Times staff writer Tom Jones offers up his Two Cents on the world of sports. Local news of the week This week started with a potentially juicy showdown between WDAE 620-AM, the biggest and most popular sports-talk radio station in Tampa, and its most popular host, Steve Duemig . The week ends with a quiet announcement that ...
05/08/11 By Rodney Page, Times Staff Writer Sunday, May 8, 2011 St. Petersburg Times staff writer Rodney Page looks back at the best and worst from a weekend of televised sports. Best spectacle Aside from maybe the Super Bowl, no sporting event gets more same-day hype than the Kentucky Derby. There was more than seven hours of prerace coverage Saturday on Versus and NBC. All this for a race that lasts ... | 
