[Times photo: Toni L. Sandys] An ocean liner that carried Marines, missionaries and millionaires has a date with a breakers yard.

Jury awards $3.4M in botched surgery
TAMPA -- A Hillsborough jury awarded $3.4-million Friday to a Pasco County man whose doctor fused the wrong vertebrae in his neck during an operation at University Community Hospital.

Sandra Thompson
Wishing to escape by air? Welcome to fees, lies and flight delays
It's Fourth of July weekend. You wish you were somewhere else. Take a pause. To get out of here -- that is, to get anyplace that has the remote possibility of being cool -- you have to take an airplane.

Death row inmate says prosecutor made trial unfair
Prosecutor Karen Cox's actions tainted his trial, he says. His attorneys say the trial was poorly run, as well.

Memorial fund established for family of lightning victim
TAMPA -- A memorial fund has been established to benefit the family of Greg Sherry, who was killed by lightning June 23 while fishing near the Howard Frankland bridge.

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