Deputy suspended for using Taser to wake inmate

A Pinellas County detention deputy was suspended for using the sound of his stun gun to try and wake up an inmate. According to an internal affairs report, the deputy thought the crackling sound of his Taser would rouse an inmate on July 27. It did not.

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Fla. Teen Stumbles Upon Mammoth Tooth

A 16-year-old high school student stumbled upon what archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century. A shiny black rock caught Sierra Sarti-Sweeney's eye as she was taking pictures last month in Boca Ciega Millennium Park.

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With confirmed cases in Pinellas and Hillsborough County, the St. Petersburg Times offers one stop for all you need to know about Swine Flu.

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A registered nurse in west Florida took a sick day only to show up at work later wearing a mask while robbing his employer at gunpoint, police said.

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About 30 fish were spotted "walking" through a Florida neighborhood, shocking homeowners who said they've never seen anything like it.

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Greg says he discovered that DCF receives millions of dollars in extra money for taking children from families and placing them in foster homes.  He indicated that an investigator who successfully does that earns 10 times what a sheriff's deputy earns for making an arrest.

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Who's Doing the "Expelling"? You Tell Me.

It's probably not necessary to go over the litany of garbage that Ben Stein's movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed tries to pass off as fact, but I think it's necessary to point out the basic premise of the movie-- that "Big Science" is suppressing free speech, censoring those …

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PINELLAS PARK - Within an hour of robbing a CVS pharmacist at knifepoint early Saturday, a 26-year-old Seminole man told his mother, who promptly turned him in, police said.

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The proposed standards refer to Darwin's theory as a "big idea" that Florida students must grasp to be well-grounded in science.

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...It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis armored car a half hour before Debbie Cole found it near the Pinellas County solid waste operations facility where she works. She first thought the bag was was a turtle in the road.

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...A Central Florida man is accused of offering a woman $100 to have sex with her young children....Police said John Thompson of Ocoee tried to pay a woman he chatted with online to have sex with her underage kids.... The woman was an undercover detective working online....

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