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Will Placido Jr. drop by to borrow sugar?

By Times Staff Writer
Published January 8, 2008

CLEARWATER

The name Placido Domingo appeared in the real estate transaction section of the Times on Saturday. But the famed operatic tenor is not the one who recently bought a property in the Harbor Oaks section of Clearwater for just over $1-million. According to the seller, the buyer is the tenor's son, Placido Domingo Jr. The younger Domingo is an accomplished composer and songwriter in his own right.

LARGO

Woman accusedof exposing herself

A residential aide at Pinellas Emergency Mental Health Services has been charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition in front of children under 16. Marissa Rodriguez, 42, is accused of exposing herself twice to a group of juvenile girls at the facility, where she worked as a temporary employee. The incidents happened Friday and again Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit. In Friday's incident, Rodriguez showed a nipple piercing to several girls and "told them afterward not to tell any of the other staff," according to an arrest report. On Sunday, Rodriguez confronted some of the patients because they had told staff members in a group session, and, in front of another staff member and juveniles, exposed her right breast, police said. Rodriguez, of Gulfport, is being held in the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.

CLEARWATER

Bilirakis presents grant to police

U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, presented the Clearwater Police Department with a $361,073 funding grant from the Governor's Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service on Monday. The money will go toward the department's AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps Clearwater members serve hand-in-hand with community police officers and other law enforcement agents. Bilirakis also swore in nine new and two returning AmeriCorps members.

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