Provides the latest RSS feeds for Tampa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Florida Statesman.com http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/cat/50bf5c36071412a0/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:25 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:25 -0400 30 TAMPA - The Rev. Terry Jones is planning to burn 2,998 Qurans on Sept. 11 in Tampa, though the exact location of the event has not been announced. But on Jones' Facebook ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214664496/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:51:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214664496/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tampa Yankees (18-24) Monday night at McKechnie Field. It was Bradenton's 10th one run loss of the season. The Marauders are 8-10 in games decided by one ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214662900/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:50:47 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214662900/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Buccaneers are coming off of an embarrassing season that saw them start with promise but nose dive into a top-15 draft pick. However, the year was an improvement on the season they had in 2011 which means Tampa Bay seems to be on the rise and could fight hard this season. But while the regular season is still months away, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214661533/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:02 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214661533/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Ressi An institute created to support entrepreneurial projects, the Founder Institute, had announced it would be holding a boot camp in the Tampa Bay-area, but has now cancelled it due to a lack of qualified applicants, it said. The Institute was created by Adeo Ressi, a college dropout who has had started eight businesses including a New York guide program bought by AOL in 1997. Ressi came to ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214660711/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:06:54 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214660711/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 After a series of headlines about major department store departures, Westfield Group created some buzz with plans to renovate Sarasotas Southgate Mall with an outdoor project including retail, restaurants and nightlife. The one-acre addition will add 46,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to the existing mall building in a space that is currently being used as a parking lot, the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214661529/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:31 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214661529/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 The internationally-famed athletics training school, the IMG Academy of Bradenton, opened its new $15 million residence hall on Monday. The academy is a private school for elite athletes from around the world with about 700 students from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate age-levels, the Bradenton Herald said. The state-of-the-art dorm is accessible only by security badges. It has more than ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214662901/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:44:41 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214662901/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 C-City Blogger Presenting Chester City's news and views to Delco Times web visitors who want to know more of what's going on in the City besides the stories they read in the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214659163/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:19:44 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214659163/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 PLANT CITY | VSI Tampa Bay FC will take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies tonight at at Plant City Stadium after Tampa Bay FC edged Orlando City U23s this past Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653621/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:02:30 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653621/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - "It's the big event at the end of the softball season. It's an exciting and fun time," said Debbie Bretz. It was an All-Star game. The best 12-year old softball players in the Miss Florida Softball League -- Lakeland's Christina Girls versus Auburndale. "It was a difficult game with lots of questionable calls," said Bretz. But the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653622/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:48:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653622/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 But in a special I-Team investigation, we found Florida's Board of Cosmetology has written up less than 100 salons locally for serious citations with fines ranging from $50 to $500 for unlicensed workers, the most serious ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653613/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:48:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214653613/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 "We noticed a boat on the left side of the vessel taking on water. There were about six, seven people in the water already. And about six on board still. The stern end of the boat was already submerged," Jenkins ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652258/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:44:00 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652258/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 As daylight dimmed Saturday evening, investigators say a man lurked in the shadows before snatching a purse away from Regina Hulverson, an off-duty deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652721/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:43:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652721/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Pinellas County deputies said it appears 50-year-old Jim Klingbeil went on a stabbing spree Sunday night after a bartender refused to serve him more ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652229/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:43:58 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214652229/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. - In a tiny town of 13,000 people, word can travel quickly. Especially when someone in this Pasco County community could claim a prize worth 12 times the city's annual $49 million ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214651797/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214651797/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 The last time he pitched, Ramon Ortiz picked up his first victory as a starter in more than six years. Now he has a chance for his second in six days. Ortiz will take the ball for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night as they play the second of a three-game series against the Rays at Rogers Centre. Alex Cobb will go for Tampa Bay, which dropped Monday's opener but has still won nine of 12. There ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214651798/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:46 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214651798/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Federal authorities say the Lees' 26-year-old daughter's boyfriend, John Andrew Welden, 28, tricked her, at six-weeks pregnant, into taking an abortion pill, called Cytotec. Prosecutors say Welden, the son of a local gynecologist, doctored the pill bottle's label to say the drugs were ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650776/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:32:45 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650776/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Number 18, a black and brown female, headed into the surgical room around 9:30 a.m, where Dr. Karla Bard sterilizes between 10 and 12 cats every ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650775/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:32:44 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650775/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Email TORONTO -- Yunel Escobar experienced a homecoming of sorts Monday when the Rays shortstop returned to Toronto to play before the Blue Jays fans he had played in front of for three years. Based on the boos, one could surmise that the overall reaction was negative, though Escobar did manage to place the final exclamation mark on his return. With the Rays trailing, 7-3, in the ninth, Escobar ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650788/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214650788/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 SEFFNER, Fla. - Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office are investigating what appears to be a case of domestic violence that ended with a husband lying dead in a driveway and his wife in jail. According to investigators, the fight that ended in the driveway on Winston Manor Circle in Seffner started the day before in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart. That's where, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643783/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:13:04 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643783/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 A look at the Inn's exterior. History and hipness are beautifully blended at The Birchwood Inn on St. Petersburgs popular Beach Drive NE. Chuck and Dr. Kathy Reilly Prather bought the former Grayls Hotel two years ago for $1.85 million cash. Tampa-based Ed Taylor Construction began gutting the three-story, 19,0000-square-foot building in January 2012. Two floors have been added to the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214660846/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:54 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214660846/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Credits: BALTIMORE, MD - MAY 18: Matt Joyce #20 of the Tampa Bay Rays celebrates with Ben Zobrist #18 after a 10-6 victory against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 18, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643275/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:53 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643275/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Trish Regan, Adam Johnson and Matt Miller report on todays ten most important stocks including Activis, Red Hat and Yahoo. (Source: Bloomberg) It was a day of nominal losses and gains on Wall Street Monday. Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) had the highest gain with 1.31 percent. WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG) had the largest loss, 1.48 percent. This comes after the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643815/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:11:48 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643815/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Toronto - R.A. Dickey won his second straight start, Edwin Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking, bases-loaded double in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643262/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:47 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643262/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643279/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:01 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214643279/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Email TORONTO -- Even before his second-inning leadoff single Monday against the Blue Jays, Evan Longoria was riding a career-high 13-game hitting streak. During the streak, Longoria was hitting .385. In addition, he had reached base safely via hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in a Major League-high 42 games this season. Longoria's solid play has extended to his defense, which has been every bit ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642051/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:58:39 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642051/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Email TORONTO -- During Spring Training, Alex Cobb spoke about the importance of the starters pitching deeper into games to help cover for the innings missed without James Shields, who was traded to the Royals. Cobb noted that getting rid of hitters in two or three pitches, or pitching to contact, would go a long way toward achieving the aforementioned goal. Alas, Cobb's strikeouts are up ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642050/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:58:39 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642050/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Email TORONTO -- Matt Joyce hit a double against the Orioles on Sunday that was reviewed and subsequently changed to a home run. Prior to that ruling taking place, Joe Maddon debated with the umpiring crew headed by Gerry Davis that if they reviewed the call, they could not overturn Joyce's double. The Rays manager maintained that doubles were not reviewable. After the game Davis offered ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642052/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:58:38 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214642052/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Head Coach Greg Schiano repeated on Monday that Josh Freeman is the Bucs' starter, and both he and his quarterback dismissed the notion that Mike Glennon's arrival has Freeman looking over his ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640838/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:02:17 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640838/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 The brief day was marked by a series of legal arguments in which defense lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case and said they would put on only one witness: Arias ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640017/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:05 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640017/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 About 7.000 acres will be auctioned off in June and July. The assets of East Coast Brokers and Packers, including farms, packing houses, the Red Rose Hotel in Plant City, a former Bible college and labor camps, will be offered for sale in a sealed bid process in June and July. The Mulberry-based company, once one of Floridas largest tomato growers and shippers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640049/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:12 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214640049/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 (CBS News) John Fogerty, frontman and the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, says of a reunion with the legendary group -- "it's possible." Appearing on "CBS This Morning" on Monday, he said, "From time to time, I'll say something and it'll get in print that maybe that will happen, and then immediately I'll hear back stuff that ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638745/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:20 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638745/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 The secretary of the Florida Lottery showed up in Zephyrhills on Monday, talking about what's next for the $590 million Powerball jackpot winner. She also brought a big check with a lot of zeros on it. "We'll take them through the steps, to go through the claiming of the ticket, the validating of the ticket, make sure it's a legitimate ticket. And they'll we'll work ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638016/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:38:59 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638016/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (R-Sport) - St. Petersburg's vice governor responsible for construction on Monday denied claims by Russia's federal Audit Chamber that the city's 2018 World Cup football stadium might not be complete until 2017. Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said earlier on Monday that the best-case scenario is for construction of the $1.1 billion arena to be finished ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214637710/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:33 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214637710/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Cleveland Indians: 1. ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638020/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:31:21 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638020/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Want to know about more events where readers can learn and connect? The Tampa Bay business community loves to network and there is not always enough space in the Tampa Bay Business Journal print edition to include a deeper offering of events coming up the next week. We will now begin sharing extra events for the upcoming week. In general, were interested in including events that are ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638019/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:44:35 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214638019/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 HILLSBOROUGH - A Hillsborough County woman was taken into custody following the shooting death of a man at 130 Winston Manor Circle. Officials received a call just before 6 a.m. Monday. The female suspect is being questioned about the shooting. Stay with ABC Action News and abcactionnews.com for the latest ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214632676/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:29:26 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214632676/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Pierce Manufacturing recently announced it is ending its ambulance line. Despite qualifying for about $2.5 million in incentives from Enterprise Florida since 2007, the Pierce Manufacturing plant in Bradenton has cut jobs leading critics to question the use of the state money. Pierce Manufacturing announced that it is ending its ambulance line resulting in 129 layoffs but intends to keep ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214631566/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:47:48 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214631566/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 SHAWNEE, Okla. - Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the ... http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214630329/scat/50bf5c36071412a0 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:33:56 -0400 http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/sid/214630329/scat/50bf5c36071412a0