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  ST. PETERSBURG –All things considered, Mayor Rick Kriseman and the city council would prefer the Tampa Bay Rays stay in St. Petersburg. Kriseman has said so repeatedly, even as he has worked out deals with the baseball team and lobbied the council to let the Rays look for new stadium locations outside the city. The council members, strongly divided and deadlocked over whether to let the team shop around, nonetheless have agreed unanimously and by a reso..

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• "Mini-homes" for homeless veterans

  

  About twenty people gathered at the Mirror Lake Library in St. Petersburg on Saturday morning to hear about a unique plan to help with the city's homeless population.  Josue Robles with USF spoke about the school's partnership with "Celebrate Outreach."  The two groups plan to get homeless veterans into "mini-homes"."We want to integrate these community members by providing them a mini house that could be their home so that's why we are not using the word house," said Robles.The plan is to have ..

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• Roster moves give Rays pitching depth to deal | Tampa Bay Times

  

  The Rays spent a lot of time talking about the roster moves they made Friday, weighing the need to protect their top young arms from being taken in the Rule 5 draft with giving up some depth at the big-league level.By doing so, at the expense most notably of CJ.P. Arencibiaand RH relieverBrandon Gomes, they feel better talking about dealing more experienced (and expensive) pitchers knowing prospects LHPBlake Snelland RHPsJacob FariaandTaylor Guerrierishould be able to help at the big-league leve..

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• Have fun with flowers with holiday theme at Plant City workshop

  PLANT CITY The Plant City Garden Club will have a floral design workshop with a holiday theme at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 at 1304 Teakwood Drive. The club will furnish the supplies needed to create a holiday arrangement including flowers and the container. Participants need to bring scissors or garden clippers. Jill Anderson, an accredited flower show judge from St. Petersburg, will provide step by step instruction. Participants do not need to know anything about..

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• The New Economy: Wages debate moves to Florida Legislature

  

  With the work force changing, The News Herald is taking a look at some of the factors at play in a three-part series that begins today. Part two on Monday will ...

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• Achievers

  

  Blake CasperandDoug Dieckhave been elected to the board of Florida Health Sciences Center, Tampa General Hospital’s governing board. UF honors local veterinarian Tampa area veterinarianDr. Richard Kanereceived University of Florida’s prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award. The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes outstanding achievements of former University of Florida students who are ..

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• Civil rights icon John Lewis to speak at Poynter Institute event | Tampa Bay Times

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — A civil rights icon will visit the city in March as part of a Poynter Institute for Media Studies event celebrating the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes.U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., will speak March 31 at the Palladium Theater for the program called "The Voices of Social Justice and Equality," which will feature work by civil rights era Pulitzer Prize winners through photography, art and music. Lewis helped lead the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, served as chairman of the S..

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• Zenit back on track in Russia as leader CSKA loses

  

  Zenit St. Petersburg reignited its push to retain the Russian Premier League title with a 3-0 win over Ural Yekaterinburg on Saturday as leader CSKA Moscow went down to a surprise defeat.Going into the game against Ural 10 points behind CSKA, Zenit started well after Ezequiel Garay put the St. Petersburg team ahead with a 12th-minute free kick.Zenit controlled possession and increased its lead with goals from Artyom Dzyuba in the 76th minute and Javi Garcia 13 minutes later.As well as closing to..

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• SPCA seeks help for cat with chemical burns

  

  SPCA seeks help for cat with chemical burnsWFLA Web StaffPublished:November 21, 2015, 5:39 pmUpdated:November 21, 2015, 5:54 pmPASCO COUNTY, FL (WFLA) – SPCA Suncoast has started a GoFundMe campaign for Hugo, a cat that was found alongside a road in Hernando County with severe chemical burns.The SPCA says Hugo will need extensive treatments to heal the burns. He will also need an auto skin graft and four to six weeks of daily wound dressing.He may alsohave to undergo more than one surgery to ful..

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• Sunday Business Notebook: Hobby Lobby planning store in The Strand | jacksonville

  

  Hobby Lobbyplans to open a store in the new development that’s going in across the street from the St. Johns Town Center. A company spokesman said it wouldn’t open until 2017 and that’s all he could tell me about the store.The 61-acre development is called The Strand and it’s being done by Preferred Growth Properties, which isn’t scheduled to close on the property until January. But it’s already starting to fill up.Last week, we had the news that Stanmore Partners also plans to put an apartment ..

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