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In the newsSwoope leaving Ch. 28Compiled from Times wires© St. Petersburg Times published June 12, 2003 WFTS-Ch. 28 weekend anchor Kelly Swoope will soon join the trickle of local TV staffers leaving the area, heading for WMAR-TV in Baltimore to serve as morning anchor and medical reporter. As the nation's 24th-largest TV market, Baltimore is smaller than the Tampa Bay area (which is 13th largest). But Swoope noted her new job offers an expanded role, along with a chance to be closer to family in Virginia, working for an ABC affiliate also owned by WFTS's parent company, Scripps-Howard. Swoope has worked at WFTS since the inception of its news department in 1994. Swoope departs WFTS July 30. She will be the third anchor this year to leave WFTS, including retired morning anchor Patrick Emory and evening anchor Martie Tucker, who left for a position in Orlando. "For Love or Money' star's conduct costs him a jobThe law firm that gave freelance work to the bachelor on NBC's dating series For Love or Money has cut its ties with him over his expulsion from the Marines' Judge Advocate General program and his behavior on Monday's show, an alcohol-soaked party with him and 10 women in a hot tub. Rob Campos, 33, had an office at Mathur Law Offices in Dallas and worked as an independent contractor, lawyer Sanjay S. Mathur said Wednesday in a statement on the firm's Web site. Campos was asked to vacate his office and will not receive more work, Mathur said. He said that Campos did not tell the firm about his dismissal from the JAG program and that a background check did not reveal it because it isn't public record. Campos was thrown out after he barged into a Navy officer's room at a naval station and groped her breasts in 1999, the Smoking Gun Web site reported Monday. Broadway closingsLa Boheme is closing up shop on Broadway. Baz Luhrmann's opulent version of the Puccini opera will fold June 29 after a seven-month run and losses of about $6-million. La Boheme wasn't the only post-Tony casualty. The Play What I Wrote announced Monday it would close Sunday. And A Year With Frog and Toad said last week it would end its brief run Sunday.  © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • St. Petersburg Times
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