Friday, April 1, 2016

Multiple companies report cell phone, internet service outages in ... and other top stories.

  • Multiple companies report cell phone, internet service outages in ...

    TAMPA, FL (WFLA) — Customers throughout the Tampa Bay area suffered through a massive outage impacting cellphone customers. Multiple phone and internet service companies reported issues Friday. Many AT&T and Verizon/Frontier customers woke up Friday with their cell phones and internet not working. AT&T released the following statement in Friday morning: “We are aware of a service issue affecting some AT&T customers in the Tampa area, and engineers are working to restore service as quickly as p..
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  • Tampa's marijuana decriminalization law begins

    Tampa's marijuana decriminalization law begins
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When Virginia State Trooper Chad P. Dermyer pulled a woman over last year on Interstate 64 for expired license plates, …
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  • Tampa could use eminent domain for road in Vinik-Cascade project

    Tampa could use eminent domain for road in Vinik-Cascade project
    TAMPA — Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investment still need access to a small piece of land for a key road in their $2 billion waterfront redevelopment. But there's a problem: the owner of the neighboring ConAgra flour mill controls the parcel. So far, talks between the mill owner and the Vinik-Cascade partnership have fallen short of a deal. If all else fails, City Hall might go to court to secure the access through eminent domain — a legal process that generally means the go..
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  • Tampa Bay gets in on April Fools' Day pranks

    Tampa Bay gets in on April Fools' Day pranks
    It's a prankster's favorite holiday and a gullible person's 24-hour nightmare: April Fool's Day. It comes every year, and no matter how much we prepare and vow we won't get fooled, it happens to many of us at least once. Since its advent, April Fool's Day has garnered serious fails — fake pregnancies, engagements, divorces, deaths, getting people fired for including a minion GIF in important business emails. Side-eyeing you, Google. Luckily, folks in the Tampa Bay area seem to have an appropr..
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  • Tampa-Tomahawks Tilt Transpires in 2-2 Tie

    Tampa-Tomahawks Tilt Transpires in 2-2 Tie
    Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports (Yes, I know they're the Tampa Bay Rays and not the Tampa Rays. But Bay doesn't start with the letter "T," does it?) The Braves tied their penultimate Spring Training game, 2-2 in a ho-hum affair. The Braves and Tampa Bay Rays played to a 2-2 tie on a Friday afternoon in Orlando, with Jason Hursh blowing the lead in the ninth and the Braves unable to come back for the victory. The real story in the low-scoring affair is likely Jhoulys Chacin's start, where ..
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  • RAINED OUT: Tampa Bay events affected by weather this weekend

    RAINED OUT: Tampa Bay events affected by weather this weekend
    RAINED OUT: Tampa Bay events affected by weather this weekend WFLA web staff Published: April 1, 2016, 4:42 pm Updated: April 1, 2016, 5:02 pm (WFLA) – We will see some showers and thunderstorms this Saturday in Tampa Bay area, that’s why a few local events in our area are canceled, postponed or rescheduled. Here is the list of the events affected by the weather: Grand Opening of Perry Harvey, Sr. Park in Tampa is postponed until Sunday, April 3. The opening will start at 2 p.m. a..
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  • Tampa domestic violence shelter did not get health inspection for six ...

    TAMPA — The Hillsborough County Health Department did not inspect the Spring of Tampa Bay for six years even though state rules that govern domestic violence shelters require an annual review. Brian Miller, environmental administrator for the county health department, said the agency stopped inspecting the Tampa shelter in 2010, when the Florida Legislature passed a law that put an end to many safety checks to cut costs. Under the health department's interpretation, the law ended local inspectio..
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  • Epilogue: Tampa's Matilda Martinez Garcia spent decades ...

    Epilogue: Tampa's Matilda Martinez Garcia spent decades ...
    TAMPA — Matilda Martinez Garcia's daughter remembers friends who joked that if someone said he or she was from Tampa but didn't know her mother, that person wasn't really from Tampa. The reason? Mrs. Garcia was everywhere, her daughter said. And she knew everyone, especially in the Hispanic community. Sometimes she'd show up to four or five events in one night. No matter the occasion, Mrs. Garcia had an aura that commanded the room. Even when she was in her 90s, she was always impeccably dressed..
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  • Tampa man wins $1 million from lottery scratch-off

    Tampa man wins $1 million from lottery scratch-off
    Tampa man wins $1 million from lottery scratch-off TAMPA (FOX 13) - A 60-year-old Tampa man claimed $1 million after scratching a winning ticket he bought at Circle K on Memorial Highway. The Florida Lottery William Farrell won the prize in the $10,000,000 FORTUNE Scratch-Off game and chose to take a one-time, lump-sum payment of $792,000.Farrell told lottery officials, "this is no April Fool's Day joke, this is real, very real."The lottery said the $25 Scratch-Off game launched on Februa..
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  • Carlton: Is Tampa losing its ugly?

    Is it possible? Is Tampa losing its ugly? For years, for decades, you could find ugly everywhere in this town — in old hotels gone to seed, in abandoned buildings, in indefensible public housing complexes that were a study in blight. Even much of the Hillsborough River was ugly, what you could see of it — a peek of it between ugly downtown buildings or from a patch of grass near the ugly interstate. Years ago, they plopped down a performing arts center like a bunch of cardboard boxes on a forgot..
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