St. Petersburg police identify cousins who died in murder-suicide
ST. PETERSBURG — Police have identified two people killed in a murder-suicide as St. Petersburg cousins. David DeCastro, 45, shot Sandra Sanchez, 39, during a fight before turning the gun on himself, investigators said. Officers were called to 1900 1/2 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St N at about 6 p.m. Witnesses said they heard DeCastro and Sanchez arguing and then gunshots. Sanchez was pronounced dead at Bayfront Health St. Petersburg after officers found her bleeding on the front porch, according..>> view originalPolice: Two dead in St. Petersburg shooting
ST. PETERSBURG — Police are investigating a shooting that left two people dead Wednesday. It happened around 6 p.m. in the 1900 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard N. Officers arrived at a house to find a man dead inside. A woman was also found inside with gunshot wounds, police said. She was taken to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, where she later died. Neither the man nor the woman was identified. Police said the situation seemed to be domestic and was contained within the home. Inve..>> view originalSt. Petersburg police arrest 16-year-old boy accused of carjacking at ...
ST. PETERSBURG — Police late Wednesday arrested a 16-year-old boy accused of stealing a woman's car and assaulting her at the Wawa on 22nd Avenue N. Officers with a unit that targets habitual juvenile offenders found the boy shortly before midnight, according to St. Petersburg police. The teen will face a charge of carjacking, police said. The Tampa Bay Times is withholding his name because of his age. They have not yet located the 54-year-old woman's car, a 2012 white Scion xD hatchback. Police..>> view originalSt. Petersburg chef chooses sea legs over commercial kitchen
ST. PETERSBURG After years of working in restaurants, Suzy Johnson has proved she can stand the heat. But she still decided to get out of the kitchen, in fact, she has left dry land altogether. The chef is living and cooking on a houseboat at Demens Landing. Many know her from Apropos, a go-to downtown lunch spot in the 1980s and again in 2011 and 2012. But Johnson sold her restaurant to move to a 36-foot houseboat. She works as a personal chef preparing food at people's homes for as few as two ..>> view originalFire at St. Petersburg assisted living facility, 1 firefighter injured
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - More than 30 special needs residents will be moved to another location for the night on Thursday after a fire at a St. Petersburg assisted living facility on Wednesday night. The Wirick assisted living facility is located at 434 4th Street North in St. Petersburg. Officials tell ABC Action News that the fire was contained to the third floor unit and started from a mattress in that unit. It is possible that the fire was started by a lit cigarette on the mattress. One fir..>> view originalSt. Pete ordinance takes aim at puppy mills
St. Pete ordinance takes aim at puppy mills Ordinance to help slow down puppy mills Emerald Morrow, WTSP 7:53 AM. EST July 14, 2016 St. Pete ordinance takes aim at puppy mills ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WTSP) – St. Petersburg city council will introduce a new ordinance on Thursday that will ban pet stores from selling cats and dogs unless those animals come from rescue or humane organizations. Council member Karl Nurse said the purpose of the ordinance is to cu..>> view originalSt. Petersburg City Council's "Notorious LWB" now goes by Lisa ...
The St. Petersburg City Council has been on vacation since its June 16 meeting. As council members, staff and the public gathered for committee meetings Thursday, many congratulated a council member on her recent nuptials. The former Lisa Wheeler-Brown married Lynnie Bowman on June 24. Her husband is a retired Largo city employee who now works for St. Petersburg in the stormwater department. Lisa Wheeler-Bowman said she wasn't sure how to spread the news. Her bio page on the city website has bee..>> view originalSt. Pete moving ahead with short-term sewage fix
The St. Petersburg City Council voted unanimously Thursday to pay $400,000 to get an additional three million gallons of emergency sewage storage at its shuttered waterfront plant. The fix is only designed to last until the city's Southwest sewer plant is expanded to 2 1/2 times it current capacity. That $35 million project is at least two years away. By repairing and repurposing some reclaimed water and digester tanks at the Albert Whitted plant, which opened in the 1920s, the city will have th..>> view originalSt. Pete committee reserves bulk of remaining BP money for climate ...
The city has about $1.4 million left from its $6.5 million settlement with BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. On Thursday, a City Council committee voted to earmark $1 million of that dwindling pile of cash to prepare the city for rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change. Council member Darden Rice, who has led the effort with Mayor Rick Kriseman to study how the city can best adapt to climate change, said the city needed to get started. "We're about five or six years behi..>> view originalSt. Pete little league baseball team has special bond with their ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Former Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Doug Waechter’s Fossil Park Under-8 All-Star baseball team is just one of four teams in the state of Florida to advance to the Cal Ripken (Division of Babe Ruth League) Southeast Regional Tournament in Tennessee this week. The 8-year-olds from St. Pete won the state championship earlier this month and now they have their sights set on a bigger prize: Winning a regional championship. What makes this Fossil Park team’s season even more magica..>> view original
Friday, July 15, 2016
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