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Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; Times staff writer TAMPA -- Prosecutors have dropped the criminal charges against Rays reliever Al Reyes. In April, Tampa police accused Reyes, 38, of an affray after [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA; Times Staff Writers TAMPA -- Investigators say Edwin Nieves pretended to be a police officer and threatened to take away a pregnant woman's children and [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Blood and childbirth make Beth Lentz queasy. When she prepared for her own children, she shied away from birthing videos. But Lentz surprised herself Monday [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Times Staff Writer -- Raised in Ybor City before the second World War, Angelo Cacciatore perfected the art of the Cuban sandwich, drawing lunchtime crowds to his [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Raised in Ybor City before the second World War, Angelo Cacciatore perfected the art of the Cuban sandwich, drawing lunchtime crowds to his Silver Ring [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The family of a man who died after downing more than 20 vodka shots at a Seffner bikini bar may have a tough battle ahead [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- After a judge refused to recuse himself from the case, Williams Thornton IV's attorney promised to go to the next level. On Wednesday, Tampa lawyer [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- After a judge refused to recuse himself from the case, Williams Thornton IV's attorney promised to go to the next level. On Wednesday, Tampa lawyer [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; COLLEEN JENKINS; JANET ZINK TAMPA -- The high-profile arrests embarrassed successful men and splashed adult business names on the news. A well-known criminal defense attorney accused of [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; COLLEEN JENKINS; JANET ZINK TAMPA -- The high-profile arrests embarrassed successful men and splashed adult business names on the news. A well-known criminal defense attorney accused of [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Neighbors knew there was trouble between Iris Hernandez-Morales and her ex-boyfriend. They sometimes saw police cars outside the West Tampa house. They knew she had [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will consider the future of a Tampa police officer who resigned amid allegations of misconduct with a prostitute. Antonio [...]

Byline: MIKE BRASSFIELD; ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Don Wallace, a prominent Tampa philanthropist who made his fortune selling RVs, called a news conference Wednesday to announce that three of his [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Twelve local residents spent last week doing a dirty job for the rest of us. Jurors in the federal trial of Paul F. Little, a [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Jurors in the federal trial of Paul F. Little, a California man who known by the nom de porn Max Hardcore, watched hours of explicit, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; COLLEEN JENKINS RIVERVIEW -- Images of smashed angels and broken headstones evoked outrage from hurt families and frustrated strangers. One voice rose above the others Tuesday to [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Two years ago, an apartment maintenance worker reached in a Dumpster and tore open a garbage bag, hoping to learn the name of the person [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA THONOTOSASSA -- A fire at a mobile home early Thursday killed two people, including the wife of a man who escaped the blaze, according to [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Two state child welfare workers skirted their duties by falsifying reports to make it appear they visited children in the state's care, according to the [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Two state child welfare workers falsified reports to make it appear they visited children in the state's care, according to the Florida Department of Law [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- An undercover Tampa police officer shot and wounded a man early Monday during a prostitution sting in the Robles Park area. Officer Alberto [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- An undercover Tampa police officer shot and wounded a man early Monday during a prostitution sting in the Robles Park area. Officer Alberto [...]

Byline: JUSTIN GEORGE; ABBIE VANSICKLE; MOLLY MOORHEAD 'Real immediate' about life After her husband's death, Vickie Childers-Metzler felt her mind playing tricks. The widow of slain Detective Ricky Childers, would [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE EAST CANTON, Ohio -- A woman stares blankly from a photograph in Kayla Bennett's pink bedroom, near a bunk bed and a shelf of Barbie dolls still [...]

Byline: CASEY CORA; ABBIE VANSICKLE LUTZ -- Lisa Freiberg's mom worried after she heard nothing on Mother's Day. She broke into her daughter's locked mobile home Monday morning to find [...]

Byline: JARED LEONE; ABBIE VANSICKLE LUTZ -- The grandmother's screams brought a neighbor running to the scene of a tripleslaying. 'Zachary's dead, Zachary's dead,' the grandmother yelled, said her neighbor [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Deputies who book inmates into the Hillsborough jails should receive more training in stress management and dealing with people with mental health and substance abuse [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- BA man from Nigeria died in Tampa last week after an attack that left him in a coma. And Tuesday afternoon, a young man in [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- A man from Nigeria died in Tampa last week after an attack left him in a coma. And Tuesday afternoon, a young man in Philadelphia [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- Archie Thomas peered into a smoke-filled police car Monday morning and saw the trapped officer, her leg broken and wrist wrenched. He picked [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; CASEY CORA TAMPA -- Archie Thomas peered into a smoke-filled police car Monday morning and saw the trapped officer, her leg broken and wrist wrenched. He picked [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE A Tampa man will get a new trial because he didn't get to confront the crime lab technician who conducted tests for his case. By [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Connie and Bill Blaney look at their Liberty Manor for Veterans and see an humanitarian home, a sanctuary for war veterans. Fire officials look at [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The teen accused in two rapes grew up with a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer as a father figure, but court records indicate it was not [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The teen accused in two rapes grew up with a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer as a father figure, but court records indicate it was not [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE; REBECCA CATALANELLO TAMPA -- Investigators think the high school freshman accused in a rape outside a suburban library Thursday night also raped a woman last summer at [...]

Byline: DAVID DECAMP; ABBIE VANSICKLE TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's free program that helps highway motorists faces shutdown unless it can flag down more money. Financially, the Road Rangers are riding on [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Lex Salisbury figured the island, surrounded by a wide moat, would be a safe, comfortable home for the 15 monkeys rescued from Puerto Rico. It looks like [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The scenario sounded too bizarre to be true: jail inmates earning pension funds from Hillsborough County. The issue made headlines last week after county officials [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Brian Sterner, the quadriplegic man who made national news after a detention deputy dumped him from his wheelchair at the Orient Road Jail, is under [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Brian Sterner, the quadriplegic man who made national news after a detention deputy dumped him from his wheelchair at the Orient Road Jail, is under investigation again, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE WAUCHULA -- His fiancee packed him a suit jacket and a tie and bought dressy shoes. Her sister tucked banana bread and fresh mangos into a picnic [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LIBERTO; ABBIE VANSICKLE; BILL VARIAN Go to jail, get a pension? Hillsborough appears to be the only county in the state where tax dollars provide retirement benefits for [...]

Byline: CASEY CORA; ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- Willie Cherry III intervened early Tuesday as his younger brother, Adrian, was being robbed at gunpoint outside a sandwich shop. The move cost [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- It took nearly five years, hundreds of pro bono legal hours and one new witness, but Jean Claude Meus will get a new trial. Meus [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Prosecutor Jay Pruner didn't make fast friends with a certain defense witness during a trial this week in a case of attempted murder on a [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The quadriplegic man dumped from his wheelchair at the Hillsborough County jail is mentally competent to face charges in a criminal case, a judge ruled [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- The quadriplegic man dumped from his wheelchair at the Hillsborough County jail is mentally competent to face charges in a criminal case, a judge ruled [...]

Byline: COLLEENS JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE Six finalists have been nominated to fill the Circuit Court vacancy left by Monica Sierra's resignation. The group, chosen from 41 applicants, includes all four [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE WAUCHULA -- Volunteer firefighter Juan Otero and a friend, coming home from a day of fishing in 2001, saw the wrecked semitrailer truck, its load of tomatoes [...]