Eckerd College innovated, but at a high price [Times photo: Jamie Francis] ST. PETERSBURG -- In September 1980, Eckerd College President Peter Armacost was working the neighborhoods around the school, building support for a bold plan to develop college land into a money-making mix of homes, retail space and elderly-care facilities. Tampa Bay briefs TAMPA -- Two armed men made off with the contents of a drugstore's safe and the tape from its surveillance camera Sunday night.

Howard Troxler A note to Pinellas' drivers: Try being nice A friend of mine got laid out on the asphalt real good the other morning when a taxicab breezed through a stop sign and ran into her motorcycle. She got scraped up but didn't break anything. Top stories A way of life disappears LAND O'LAKES -- As the noon sun parched the palmetto-brush terrain at the 8,000-acre Barthle Brothers Ranch, Randy Barthle tried to ignore his achy hip wedged into the saddle atop a colt named Dude.

Candle possible cause of apartment fire
TAMPA -- A slow-burning candle is believed to have started a two-alarm fire early Sunday that consumed an apartment occupied by two military officers, authorities said.

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