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Girl survives after truck flings her off of bridge [Photo by Eamonn W. Kneeshaw] The girl is scraped, bruised and scratched when she falls into a swampy mangrove patch.

Judge recommends barring Bailey from practicing law
Attorney F. Lee Bailey is found guilty of six violations stemming from his dealings with a former client.

Tampa's FAMU bid has top value
The offer is $12.7-million in cash and property for a new law school. But observers say more than money will decide who wins.

Jury backs death for boy's killer
Jurors recommend death for the man who fatally beat a 2-year-old as the boy's parents watched.

Mary Jo Melone
A recipe untested, a legacy unfulfilled
The recipe says that if you get stuck, you should call Aunt Carrie. But like her seven sisters, Aunt Carrie has passed. They were immigrant women, great aunts I only knew a little, if at all, when they looked to me imposing as giants, even though they were small gray-haired women in eyeglasses, with veined workingwomen's hands.

New state attorney is sworn in [Times photo: Fraser Hale] John Rudy, a Tampa corporate lawyer will run the Hillsborough office until a permanent replacement is elected.

Lawyer tests mall policy on clothing, gets warning
The NAACP board member was threatened with arrest in a quarrel with mall security and police.

Boy boarded ship with kids group, Carnival reports
The accidental voyage of a 9-year-old boy who wandered onto a cruise ship in New Orleans on Friday and ended up in Tampa came full circle before the weekend was over.

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