Plane makes emergency landing at St. Petersburg golf course and other top stories.

• Plane makes emergency landing at St. Petersburg golf course

  

  A small airplane was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday afternoon on the 12th fairway of a St. Petersburg golf course, police said. The pilot and his teenage passenger were not injured. At 1:45 p.m. Saturday, a 1939 Taylor Craft fixed-wing airplane had to make an emergency landing on the St. Petersburg Country Club Course. The two-seater plane was flying with two other aircraft. The three planes had taken off from Lakeland and were on their way to Manatee County, the St. Petersburg Po..

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• Plane aborts takeoff on flight to St. Petersburg

  

  Plane aborts takeoff on flight to St. Petersburg WTSP 4:45 PM. EST March 05, 2016 Allegiant Air's bad run of publicity in 2015 has not stopped its growth at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. (Photo: Custom) Fort Wayne, Indiana – An Allegiant airplane bound for the St Pete-Clearwater Airport aborted it's takeoff Saturday due to a mechanical issue, the carrier reported.The plane, with 153 passengers and a crew of six, returned to the gate after pilots..

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• Screening to offer sneak peek at film on Kerouac

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — A miserable Jack Kerouac drank himself into an early grave while living in St. Petersburg, a city he despised, from 1964 until he died in 1969 at St. Anthony’s Hospital of complications from cirrhosis of the liver. Period, end of story — at least according to the popular narrative at the time. But this sad tale is off the mark, says filmmaker Kristy Andersen, who for two years has been interviewing Kerouac’s friends and colleagues to document the dozen years he spent in the Sun..

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• Traffic, construction causing delays on I-275 southbound in St. Pete

  

  This may be a great time to talk your kids about their week. So, if they’re having problems at school, what’s the best way to help?

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