Here in Tampa, long the minor league feeder system for the Jerry Springer Show (I’m not sure that show is even still on the air, but I’ll bet many of our teachers are still willing to have sex with their students, just in case), we have proven once again that our ability to demonstrate misbehavior [...]
Well, he is free on $250 bail, but Walsh Ian Nichols, who likes to dress up like Batman and hang around clubs in Ybor City was arrested last week. He was charged with “wearing hood on street” and not having a valid motorcycle license. Wearing a hood in public has been a law on [...]
Back in the early ’80s, civic leaders branded Tampa “America’s Next Great City”. Since then, we’ve been on a quest to gather as many sports franchises, high profile events, aquariums and streetcars as possible in an effort to legitimize that claim. Another brick in that wall was added this week when it was announced a [...]
107 people were arrested during last month’s Gasparilla invasion and parade. The two you see being carted off here were busted before the parade even started. There were eleven felonies reported and 96 misdemeanors, including nine charges of boating under the influence. The director of Hillsborough County Health Department and professor of internal [...]
One of the things I don’t really like about where I live is this strange envy of other metropolitan areas that we seem to have. It’s like we’re not happy enough with what we have and feel this need to justify our existence as a “real” city, whatever that means. In that way, Tampa Bay [...]
Gulfport cops think a drug dealer dialed a random number to try to drum up new business. Detective Matt Parks said he was at home Sunday night when he received a strange call. He said the caller asked for a name Parks did not recognize, but when Parks told him he had the wrong number, [...]
An article with the following headline from the St. Pete Times came to my attention earlier this week (thanks, Denise): Clash ends in stabbing by sword As if my interest wasn’t piqued sufficiently, this was the sub headline: A man confronts his wife and her new lover – sex offenders all – and it quickly turns deadly. Helloooo nurse! It [...]
That’s right… to make a sale. The principal of Van Buren Middle School has been arrested and charged with buying crack cocaine in his office from an undercover police officer, Tampa Police said. Anthony Giancola, 40, has been taken to police headquarters for questioning. In other role model news, Two East Hillsborough moms bring their three children with [...]
80 years ago… December 12, 1926 – For the second time in two days, a robbery is attempted at the Adams Jewelry Store, located at 611 Franklin Street. Tampa police thought these attempts were from the same group who broke into the safe at Maas Brothers across the street and took $12,000 ($125,000 in today’s dollars). Courtesy [...]
