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FAMU site was shot, now is hot [Times photo: Jim Damaske] TAMPA -- After a tour of the city's deteriorating police station four years ago, Tampa Mayor Dick Greco said he "was ashamed at what we were expecting the men and women of the Police Department to work out of."

Assistant public defender loses job
LARGO -- Jonathan Comnes, an assistant public defender who slept with a client's mother and later was charged with waving a gun at a motorist, was facing an ultimatum.

Hearing will pry at secret case against Tampa man
The former USF teacher's accusers, the FBI and INS, must reveal enough of their evidence that he may mount a defense, a judge says.

Tampa Bay briefs
Girl, 8, who was hanged still in critical condition

Howard Troxler
Your marriage, taxes and many happy returns
Woooooo, doggie! Plenty of folks were mad at my defense of the federal estate tax Wednesday. As one explained patiently to me, "Two million dollars isn't THAT much money." Nonetheless, let us proceed courageously to today's discussion of the "marriage penalty."

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