Happy Valentine's Day! It's kind of like yesterday, only with greeting cards and dashed expectations.
A provocative documentary on St. Petersburg's sewage-dumping woes called St. Pete Unfiltered will screen at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in March, annoying citizens of the city who think that murals fix everything.
A Port Richey woman was arrested for allegedly kidnapping her neighbor's 18-month-old son. She alternately told authorities that she was asked to watch the child, and that she was rescuing the child from an unfit mother; the cops say she was asking her dog for help while they were trying to coax her into giving the kid up. So no one wins, then.
A man who'd been shot in the arm pulled into a Tampa Steak 'n Shake for assistance late last night. Which is weird, because it seemed like he'd already been the victim of some kind of beef…
A new report by the Center for American Progress gave Florida a failing grade in the area of election security, citing a lack of a proper paper trail, no requirement that voting machines meet national guidelines, and "were you guys really expecting a different result?"
And finally, the winner of this year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was a tiny, floofy low-floating cumulous cloud named… Flynn. Fans of actual dogs with names like Sir Dolan Tres Rexicon Woffheidner were pissed.
This article appears in Feb 8-15, 2018.
