Hillsborough County news
Schools to pay over boy's death
TAMPA -- The Hillsborough County School District has reached a settlement in the case of Eric Martin, a Walker Middle School student who died after a bus driver dropped him off 5 miles from his Odessa home.

Pact gives teachers average 3% raises
Terms of the contract awaiting approval still leave the county lagging Pinellas and Pasco.

Suspicious package causes alarm
Eight go to the hospital after opening the package with finely chopped newspaper.

Jury convicts man in baby son's death
A jury rejects George Christopher Edmond's insanity defense. A judge sentences him to life in prison without parole.

2 officials win time to give answers
The commissioners are to comment on the public access TV case.

A closer look: one Hillsborough church
Tims Memorial Presbyterian Church

Paramedic is named Firefighter of the Year
TAMPA -- He helped search through the rubble of the World Trade Center, but Tampa Fire Rescue paramedic Roger Picard is being honored for much more than that.

Sandra Thompson
Maybe this is why our downtown is a letdown
Last week, in the throes of giddiness over having just returned from a real city -- Vancouver, B.C. -- I noticed something about Tampa I wish I hadn't. At first, I saw the potential here, and there is a lot. I saw ferries like Vancouver's shuttling from the Channel District to downtown to Bayshore Boulevard. A monorail like Vancouver's SkyTrain running from the suburbs to downtown and Ybor City. Sleek residential towers downtown, cheek to jowl with renovated older buildings converted to lofts and condos. Restaurants, cafes, performance spaces, bookstores.

Ernest Hooper
The sisterhood's new generation
Wendy Wiegler had something important to tell her parents. Really important.

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