[Times photo: Fraser Hale] Ralph Kelly, a Tampa inspector, unloads signs confiscated along S Dale Mabry on Friday.

Hillsborough County news

Man wounds 2 robbers in Ybor City, police say
As a group of four men tried to rob him after he got off work, police say, he shot at them with a pistol.

Police arrest 22-year-old man in Hyde Park murder case
He faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted armed robbery and two counts of car theft in the case that shook the quiet neighborhood.

Inspectors sweep up illegal signs
Tampa will assign its code enforcers to sign patrol the next few Fridays with the support of the mayor, who has plucked a few illegal signs himself.

Man held in wife's strangling
Cathy Wonders, 28, was found dead in her Tampa home in the Skylite Mobile Home Park on E Hillsborough Avenue.

Man, 56, smoking in bed dies in fire
TAMPA -- A 56-year-old man who fell asleep on his bed with a lit cigarette died in a fire early Friday.

Boys accused in shootings rearrested
TAMPA -- Two Tampa teenagers charged in February with randomly shooting a .22-caliber rifle at passing motorists on U.S. 41 in Ruskin have been arrested again.

Stamp depicts U.S. involvement in Gulf War
TAMPA -- The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a Gulf War stamp Friday, and a general called it a reminder of the sacrifice, achievement and commitment of the troops who served in Desert Storm.

Tribe's suit against Times is dismissed
A circuit judge in Broward County has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the Seminole Tribe of Florida against the St. Petersburg Times and two of its reporters.

Ex-Tampa officer loses fight to have charges dropped
TAMPA -- A former Tampa police officer accused of falsifying a police report lost a legal battle Friday to have the charges thrown out on the grounds that the prosecutor failed to introduce the written report as evidence.

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