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Tampa police arrested a man who let his 12-year-old son drive his SUV so he could drink in the passenger seat.
A Marion County man was charged with driving under the influence after crashing a stolen riding lawnmower into a school bus.
A 22-year-old South Florida man climbed aboard a locomotive with a friend and took it seven miles down the tracks for a joy ride. They came up with the idea while heading to a local bar.
A Clearwater man was charged with drunk driving after police pulled him over for driving a car with only three tires.
Pasco County deputies arrested two men they said were fighting over $3 in gas money on the way home from a strip club. The weapons involved: a fish tank and a beer bottle.

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More people lived and worked downtown as the Centro Ybor entertainment complex and an assortment of new condo towers opened, the Tampa Bay History Center debuted, streetcars returned and the mayor’s Riverwalk project grew. Trump Tower Tampa never got off the ground, but a new Tampa Museum of Art (pictured) and Glazer Children’s Museum were approaching their debuts along the Hillsborough River at decade’s end.
9. DUBIOUS BEHAVIOR
Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson left a budget deficit in the millions and a legacy of uneven leadership after being defeated in a re-election bid. The Lowry Park Zoo’s board of directors forced Lex Salisbury out of his job after investigations revealed he mixed the zoo’s assets and animals with those of a wild animal park in Polk County. State appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer resigned, and later pleaded guilty to bank fraud, after helping a stripper hide her financial assets from creditors. And Ralph Mervine resigned as executive director of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority in 2006 after it was learned he owned a pornography production company in San Diego.

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Northern Somalia shows how efforts on the ground can translate into success.
The gains are starting to occur in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, which wants a share of the $250 million pledged to Somalia at a U.N.-sponsored international donor’s conference in April to help stabilize the nation and fund humanitarian work.
Author Jay Bahadur, who has spent time in Puntland researching a book on piracy, said last January there was only one police checkpoint on the outskirts of the regional capital of Garowe, long a pirate boomtown. By June and July there were many more and authorities had begun to launch raids against suspected pirates, he said.
There has also been a local backlash against pirates, he said, because they indulge in un-Islamic behavior such as drinking and using prostitutes, and their spending of ransom money has triggered soaring inflation.

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Two high-profile Plant City murder cases moved through the courts during the year, including a life sentence for Benjamin James Wibben, 30, who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and robbery in the 2005 slayings of Heather, 26, and Darren Kaiser, 37. The Plant City couple were shot and killed at the Internet car sales business they operated from their home. The killer stole a sports car and two laptops, authorities said.
In the other murder case, former First Baptist deacon Samuel L. Smithers lost an appeal of his death sentences for the 1996 murders of two Tampa prostitutes. The Florida Supreme Court refused to overturn lower court rulings to vacate Smithers’ convictions in the brutal slayings of Christy Elizabeth Cowan, 31, and Denise Elaine Roach, 24. The Tampa women were picked up in a seedy area of East Tampa and killed at a Plant City-area home where Smithers was caretaker.

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Arrested on charges of prostitution solicitation were Amanda Cruzado, 33; Frances Patterson, 46; Jessica Rioux, 28; Alicia Brock, 41; Stephanie Lyons, 20; Victoria Murray, 45; Diane Peterson, 51, who was also charged with possessing drug paraphernalia; Lindsay Stone, 29, also charged with two counts of violating felony probation; Deanne Reno, 23; and Kimberly Gettig, 34.

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Two high profile Plant City murder cases moved through the courts during the year, including a life sentence for Benjamin James Wibben, 30, who pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder and robbery in the 2005 slayings of Heather, 26, and Darren Kaiser, 37. The Plant City couple were shot and killed at the Internet car sales business they operated from their home. The killer stole an aging sports car and two laptops, authorities said.
In the other murder case, former First Baptist deacon Samuel L. Smithers lost an appeal of his death sentences for the 1996 murders of two Tampa prostitutes. The Florida Supreme Court refused to overturn lower court rulings to vacate Smithers’ convictions in the brutal slayings of Christy Elizabeth Cowan, 31, and Denise Elaine Roach, 24. The Tampa women were picked up in a seedy area of East Tampa and killed at a Plant City-area home where Smithers was caretaker.

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Crowley Maritime Services spokesman Jim Butler says his company’s tug arrived under tow into Valdez early Sunday morning.
He says crews will now work determine how much diesel fuel spilled into the bay after the Pathfinder ran aground on Wednesday.
Butler says they hope to have an answer late Sunday but it could take longer to examine all materials used in cleaning up the spill to make that calculation.
The Coast Guard says that two of its tanks — containing an estimated 33,500 gallons of diesel fuel — were damaged.
On two separate occasions, diesel fuel sheens of one mile and three miles spread across the waters, but officials say no animals were injured and the fuel didn’t reach land.
The boat is part of a ship escort service created after the Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil in 1989.

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Winston: We’re at a strip club.
Herr-Dawg: Are we?  Huh.  I suppose we are.  Anyway, I’m a couple years older than you Winston, and, well, I feel like it’s my responsibility to share some wisdom with you.  This is a crazy game we play, and you never know what things will be like next week, let alone next year, and so I wanted to make sure we got some time to talk.  About serious stuff. 
Winston: Serious stuff?
Herr-Dawg: About the most serious stuff, Winston.  About that which has inspired poets and artists for generations!  Love, Winston.  True love. 
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Herr-Dawg: It’s just.  You know, I come here to try to get away from those feelings of loss.  And I just can’t.  Everything reminds me of Zeus.  Like that stripper pole.  He loved peeing on poles.  Or the strobe lights.  He loved flashing lights.  Oh, I don’t know. 

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A police prostitution sting netted 13 arrests Wednesday in Clearwater’s East Gateway area. Arrested on charges of prostitution solicitation were Amanda Cruzado, 33; Frances Patterson, 46; Jessica Rioux, 28; Alicia Brock, 41; Stephanie Lyons, 20; Victoria Murray, 45; Diane Peterson, 51, who was also charged with possessing drug paraphernalia; Lindsay Stone, 29, also charged with two counts of violating felony probation; Deanne Reno, 23; and Kimberly Gettig, 34. Vanessa Montalto, 30, faces a charge of exposing sexual organs; Jovanny Perez, 31, faces a charge of selling and possessing crack cocaine; and Ketrina Maggard, 50, was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Police said the sting area was south of Drew Street, north of Court Street, east of Missouri Avenue and west of Highland Avenue.

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Christmastime prostitution sting nets 13
Updated: Thursday, 24 Dec 2009, 1:04 PM ESTPublished : Thursday, 24 Dec 2009, 12:49 PM EST
CLEARWATER – Clearwater police arrested 13 women, ranging in ages from 21 to 51, in a pre-Christmas prostitution sting.
In an effort to reduce prostitution solicitation and activity, officers patrolled several locations in the East Gateway area, located south of Drew Street and North of Court Street, according to the Clearwater Police Department.
Amanda Cruzado Herring, Frances Patterson, Jessica Rioux, Alicia Brock, Stephanie Lyons, Victoria Murray, Diane Peterson and Lindsay Stone face misdemeanor charges of solicitation of prostitution.
Deanne Reno and Kimberly Gettig are charged with felony solicitation of prostitution.
Vanessa Montalto is charged with exposure of sexual organs. Jovanny Perez is charged with sale and possession of crack cocaine.

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