Checkered past doesn't close classroom doors for Pinellas teacher Jason Pafundi
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:05:07 -0700
By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer Monday, August 30, 2010 He was reprimanded for sleeping in class. He resigned after allegedly stealing yearbook money. And after being given an extraordinary second chance, he was banned from working at a high school because the principal found him unreliable. Despite a checkered past, Jason Pafundi, 31, landed another full-time teaching gig in Pinellas this ...
Good riddance to the primary election; bring on the general
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:08:16 -0700
By Howard Troxler, Times Columnist Monday, August 23, 2010 It's election day, and none too soon. After today the Republicans can stop saying nasty things about other Republicans, and the same for Democrats, and we can get back to the normal state of affairs of them saying nasty things about each other . Although today's election used to be called the "party" primary, and some people say they're ...
Justin Sargent's Richey Suncoast Theatre debut 11 years ago leads to Broadway
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:05:58 -0700
By Barbara L. Fredricksen, Times Staff Writer Friday, August 20, 2010 Longtime local theatergoers will likely remember a cute, chubby boy who played the Artful Dodger in Richey Suncoast Theatre's production of Oliver! in 1999. It was Justin Sargent, then 14, and he had tagged along to auditions with his parents, Lynn and Jim, who were active volunteers at the New Port Richey community theater ...
Deputies put heat on street level drug dealers
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:12:21 -0700
"Operation Heat Wave" rounds up suspects accused of selling crack or oxycodone to undercover deputies.
Police Beat: August 19, 2010
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:01:00 -0700
To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.
City of Bonita Springs to do what it can to combat beach erosion on Big Hickory Island
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:07:30 -0700
The Bonita Springs City Council voted 6-0 today to take whatever actions necessary to expedite the permitting from the Florida Department of...
Deputies arrest man accused of attacking homeless man
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:27:21 -0700
Deputies arrested suspect Andrew Mitchell Sunday afternoon, he is charged with one count of first degree murder.
Pasco sex offender charged in 1980s Arizona murder
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:37:50 -0700
By Vivian Yee, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, August 4, 2010 McIlrath HUDSON — Before they divorced in 1996, Michael McIlrath dropped Lynn Allen only a few hints about his past. He was full of grand stories and little lies, she remembered. He wouldn't say how old he was, only that he had been born a few years after her in Georgia, where he had an ex-wife and a few kids. Once he told her he had ...
Report: Pasco sex offender charged in 1980s Arizona murder
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:37:50 -0700
Times staff Wednesday, August 4, 2010 HUDSON — A man serving a life sentence in Florida for molesting a 10-year-old girl has been charged with murdering an Arizona man more than 20 years ago. Michael Albert McIlrath, now 53, was a Tarpon Springs sponge diver who was convicted in 2000 of forcing a Hudson girl to perform oral sex on him. He told deputies the 1996 incident was not his fault because ...
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