Fire rises from ashes, closing a stretch of I-75
The Sarasota County blaze began with a lightning strike Sunday and was near extinction when winds fanned the embers and revived the flames.
Howard Troxler
Congress acts while high court checks its list
The most important debate going on in America today is not between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Physician defends child's 2nd surgery
ST. PETERSBURG -- For the last five years of her short life, Jessica Roud was a prisoner in her small, cancer-ravaged body.
As health flags, Ruggles resigns
Pinellas' longtime supervisor of elections, Dot Ruggles, was too sick to sign her letter of resignation.
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[Times photo: Fraser Hale]
Top lawyer slain;
ex-wife charged
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| Grover Freeman |
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| Katherine Freeman |
Katherine Freeman delivered home-baked poundcakes, bathed a friend's young daughter and chatted with neighbors Monday afternoon in her tony Carrollwood subdivision. Hours later, investigators say, she shot to death her ex-husband, successful lawyer Grover Cleveland Freeman Jr., 54, before beating and attempting to strangle his wife in the couple's two-story lakefront home in Carrollwood. Story
Friends: Freeman, ex-wife were still friends
He was a tenacious lawyer who commanded a courtroom with his booming baritone and 6-foot-plus frame. When he spoke, colleagues said, people listened.
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