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By TIMES WIRES
Published July 20, 2006

One pizza, with a side order of clues to go

The bad guy didn't quite draw a map for Clearwater police, but he might as well have. Chauncey Maurice Mebane, 17, ordered a pizza from Hungry Howie's late Tuesday, giving his stepfather's name and home phone number and an address next door. When the deliveryman arrived, police said, Mebane pretended he had a gun, robbed the man of cash but left the pizza. Unfortunately for Mebane, the pizza receipt contained everything needed to track him down, police said. Officers did so moments later. "Mr Mebane is certainly unpracticed in the ways and wiles of crime," police spokesman Wayne Shelor said.

HipHopSodaShop to serve food, music

HipHopSodaShop will open a location on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in Tampa within the next few months. The Tampa store is expected to be the first in the new chain to open nationwide. The stores will feature healthful fast food, hip-hop music, a CyberSports arena, more than a dozen giant HD and plasma screens, merchandise and entertainment areas. Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers star Warren Sapp, who may not be svelte but is speedy, has signed on to head the chain's Florida stores in partnership with H3 Enterprises.

FIU program merges architecture with art

South Beach is proof that architecture is as much a form of art as music, dance and theater. Little surprise, then, that administrators at Florida International University in Miami have created a college that merges a campus art museum with the schools of architecture, art and art history, music, and theater, dance and speech. Creation of the College of Architecture and the Arts took two years of planning and is modeled after similar arts-and-architecture mergers at universities such as UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon.

He came to post bail, only to wind up in jail

A Citrus County man says he only wanted to bail his buddy out of the county jail. But Raymond Edward Skuta ended up behind bars himself after a corrections officer accused him of splashing him with an "unknown type of liquid." Skuta, 58, said he got frustrated by the wait, which lasted more than four hours, authorities said. Reached by telephone at his home Wednesday afternoon, Skuta denied throwing anything. "My daddy taught me better than to throw stuff at people," he said.

Correction

Dr. M. Rony Francois is the secretary of the Florida Department of Health. His name was reported incorrectly Wednesday.

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