After Flint, St. Petersburg mulls more tests for lead in water supply and other top stories.

• After Flint, St. Petersburg mulls more tests for lead in water supply

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — Despite assurances from St. Petersburg's top water official that the city's drinking supply is safe, City Council members said Thursday that more testing should be done to ease the minds of worried residents. The specter of lead contamination in Flint, Mich. — which has raised concerns nationally about the overall quality in drinking water — haunted a 23-minute presentation by Water Resources director Steve Leavitt. Closer to home, a small band of residents who live near Sawgras..

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• Montanari to have heart surgery, out of St. Petersburg council mix for ...

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — One of the City Council's newest members will be missing from the dais for the next few months. Ed Montanari said Thursday he will have heart surgery this month. The Feb. 23 procedure will repair his mitral valve and will be done at the Cleveland Clinic. "Our city has been blessed with a great staff and I am confident that the issues that need to be addressed in my absence will be covered," Montanari said in a memo to his council colleagues and Mayor Rick Kriseman. Montanari, w..

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• Vinci, Ivanovic reach St. Petersburg semis

  

  Roberta Vinci survived a scare from Timea Babos of Hungary to reach the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy semifinals on Friday.Vinci broke Babos when the latter was serving for the match in the deciding set, and bounced back from 4-2 down in the tiebreak to win 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (4).Vinci struggled throughout the first and second sets, landing fewer than half of her first serves."She served so good, but today I played so-so. Especially at the beginning, I was so tight, so nervous," Vinci said in tel..

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• Wozniacki beaten by Cibulkova in St. Petersburg

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Caroline Wozniacki was knocked out of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy by Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 7-5 after a heated dispute with the umpire over a mistaken call. Wozniacki was 5-3 down in the second set when a Cibulkova shot was wrongly called out. Umpire Emmanuel Joseph overruled the call and awarded the point to Cibulkova instead of replaying the point even though Wozniacki had clearly returned the ball in court Thursday. That prompted a lengthy dispute between the D..

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• Allegiant flight makes emergency landing in Alabama

  

  2 Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutAllegiant flight makes emergency landing in Alabama Flight 872 with service from the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) to Eppley Airfield (OMA) in Omaha, Nebraska departed PIE at 8:19 a.m. local time.Sent!A link has been sent to your friend's email address.Posted!A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Allegiant flight makes emergency landi..

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• With buses leaving, St. Pete's Williams Park returns to original purpose

  

  ST. PETERSBURG – The Williams Park bus station will be no more as of Sunday. The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority is closing the transfer hub that has been at Williams Park for more than 60 years, and often the source of consternation for many people and businesses downtown. A single bus stop will remain there. The transit authority is dispersing the bus stops along several blocks in the area, and teams of PSTA workers and board members have been hitting the park twice a day to make sure bus..

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• St. Pete hopes to build air gondolas with federal grant

  

  This is one example of an urban gondola. The one proposed would connect downtown Clearwater to the beach(Photo: Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, Design by Johannes Geisler)ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- First it was Clearwater, now St. Petersburg is considering air gondolas.10News WTSP tracked down a copy of the city's application for a $40 million federal grant – called Beyond Traffic, the Smart City Challenge. It encourages cities to find ways to improve ground transportation."We can make it safer, we can..

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• USF career rushing leader Andre Hall arrested

  

  Andre Hall, the University of South Florida’s career rushing leader, was arrested Thursday morning on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and brawling. According to St. Petersburg police, Hall was involved in a brawl at the Somethin’ Different nightclub, 2420 Central Ave., just after midnight. According to a sworn complaint, some of the nightclub’s patrons were struck and several chairs were knocked over, causing most of the patrons to leave the club before the fighting escalated. Hall, 3..

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