Hillsborough County news
Criminals lucky to come up short
If you appear before Circuit Judge Florence Foster, it doesn't hurt to be short.

THAP given extension to produce audits
The Hillsborough County Commission voted Wednesday to cancel more than $1-million in contracts with the Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan because of the embattled agency's failure to provide audits for the last three years.

Judge cites prosecutor trickery, orders retrial
TAMPA -- Pointing to evidence withheld by prosecutors, a judge Wednesday ordered a new trial for Juan Roberto Melendez, who has spent the past 17 years on death row on a murder conviction.

Commission votes to expand manatee protection area
Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday voted to expand manatee protection zones for boaters to include much of the southeastern shoreline of Tampa Bay.

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