Sandra Thompson: Roads are bad - let the good ones be
In this city you probably have your special routes to get places, circumventing the really horrible-to-drive-on streets like, say, S Dale Mabry. It's a major truck route, the road is too narrow, there's horrendous traffic and speeding, with cars pulling in and out of strip centers willy-nilly.

Patty Ryan: My driving class was so funny! (How funny was it?)
QUESTION: When is it okay to exceed the 55 mph speed limit? When you're on the interstate? When the sign says 65?

Bidding begins for the best house on the block
An $8.5-million estate in the Avila community of Tampa will be auctioned, along with fancy paintings and furniture.

County backs salary increase
A salary study supports giving raises averaging 7 percent in each of the next two years.

Student dies in race near school
Police say two cars were racing near Alonso High. The 16-year-old driver of a stolen 2001 Corvette loses control and hits a tree.

Will diva Mary J. Blige hear cry from the soul?
A day care owner insists the hip hop queen will come since the center's need to raise funds makes it a family affair.

Tampa pays couple for damage to their home
Damage from a sewage project left a Davis Islands house unsalable. The city pays $340,000 to make it right.

Two face charges in woman's kidnapping
RUSKIN - Magali Lopez-Cruz was the only thing that mattered to her family.

Landlord's records subpoenaed
Officials hope the records help their effort to make real estate investor Steven Green pay $1.3-million in fines.


Religion
A Closer Look: One Hillsborough Church
Mt. Calvary Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Jury may decide police brutality case
An appeals court's ruling will let jurors determine if Tampa police used excessive force in a struggle that left a man comatose.

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