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Knife trumps beer bottle in 7-Eleven robbery

By TIMES WIRES
Published April 5, 2007

LARGO

If you're looking for a moral in this tale, it might be: Don't bring a beer bottle to a knife fight. Largo police said that Michael Lashan Woods, 31, of Clearwater walked into a 7-Eleven at 5860 Roosevelt Blvd. in the High Point area near Largo shortly after midnight Wednesday. He demanded cash and threw a Heineken bottle at the store clerk, who in turn grabbed a large knife, police say. The clerk then chased him from the store and held the door shut when Woods tried to get back inside, police said. Woods left before officers arrived, but later a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy responding to an unrelated call found Woods and took him into custody. He was arrested on charges of robbery, aggravated battery and possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. He was being held in the Pinellas County Jail on Wednesday in lieu of $80,500 bail. Police said Woods first denied being in the 7-Eleven, but later in the back of the cruiser he said, "I should've taken his head off," meaning the clerk's.

CLEARWATER

SPC takes spring job fair outdoors

The St. Petersburg College Career Development Center's spring job fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday outdoors on the quad at the Clearwater campus, 2465 Drew St. The job fair is open to the public and will feature 28 employers, including One on One Care Services, National Business Communications, Daktizonics, Pods, Tech Data, Communicare, The Bank of Tampa, Babies R Us, Kelly Services, Bank Atlantic, Nurse Core, Allied Barton Security Services, Frank Crum Staffing, SCC Soft Computers, Bouchard Insurance, Consumer Sales Solutions, the Girl Scouts of the Suncoast Council, Dunstone Financial, Sun Trust Bank, the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Ceridian, Infinity Staffing, Harte-Hanks, Jared the Galleria of Jewelry, the Belleview Biltmore Resort, the U.S. Navy, Federal Express and Waste Management. Call (727) 791-2680.

COUNTYWIDE

In auto tags, Bucs No. 1 in Pinellas

Pinellas County residents love wildlife, but when it comes to our auto tags, apparently we love sports as much or more. According to the Pinellas County Tax Collector, the top 12 specialty license plates ordered in Pinellas during 2006 were: No. 1 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers; No. 2. - Protect Wild Dolphins; No. 3 - Save the Manatee; No. 4 - Protect Our Reefs; No. 5 - University of Florida; No. 6 - Protect the Panther; No. 7 - Helping Sea Turtles Survive; No. 8 - Save Our Seas; No. 9 - Florida State University; No. 10 - Choose Life; No. 11 - Marine Corps; and No. 12 - Tampa Bay Estuary. If you want to boost the numbers for the Protect our Reefs tag this year, Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota will provide a free ticket and a key ring to anyone who orders one of the tags this month . To learn more, visit www.taxcollect.com or call (727) 562-3262.

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