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News from around the area.

By Times Staff
Published May 27, 2006

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Woman driver in fatal 2005 accident is charged

ST. PETERSBURG - A 45-year-old woman was arrested on a DUI manslaughter charge Thursday for a 2005 accident that led to the death of a passenger in her Ford pickup.

Linda Rena Lynch told authorities she used crack cocaine before driving while carrying two men in the bed of the truck, according to an affidavit. Near 37th Street S and Fairfield Avenue S in St. Petersburg, she had an accident, and the truck flipped over.

One passenger, Frederick Williams, 43, was killed. The other, Troy Hall, then 40, survived.

Man jailed in fatal crash loses son in drowning

LAKELAND - The man accused of driving drunk and causing a Brandon crash that killed four members of a wedding party lost his own son Sunday in a drowning, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported.

Anthony Quan Graham, 4, was at a relative's swimming pool with his mother and friends in Lakeland, sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Rodgers said. "They noticed him at the bottom of the pool, got him out and tried to perform CPR," Rodgers said. The boy was later pronounced dead.

His father, Kenneth Delmar Stewart, 35, is jailed in Hillsborough County on charges of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide stemming from the April 21 crash.

Man allegedly shoots housemate, turns self in

ST. PETERSBURG - A 26-year-old man turned himself in to police Friday after allegedly shooting another man he was living with in a mobile home.

Earl Jackson, 26, surrendered in Tampa, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. He faces one charge of attempted homicide for shooting Leonard Carter, 48, several times with a handgun.

Carter was in critical but stable condition at Bayfront Medical Center Friday.

The Sheriff's Office said Carter and Jackson lived at Silver Lake Mobile Home Park in the 4000 block of 24th Street N with their girlfriends. They allegedly argued over how Jackson talked to Carter's girlfriend.