Articles labeled: Tampa

It’s always the boyfriend.

Single mothers, wake up! If your boyfriend seems a little creepy, kick him to the curb! He obviously wasn’t operating with a full deck. MT’s sure that he came to the family with some baggage and indications that he was a little…”off”.

And of course, it happened in Florida, a gigantic mental insitution in it’s own right.

The victims were so mutilated it’s hard to say what was the cause of death at this point, “given the damage,” Docobo said. “There were multiple means used to inflict the wounds on the bodies,” he said.

Neighbors said Freiberg had met Covington on the Internet, and he had recently moved in. He was not the father of the children.

There’s a little candy store near Minor Topics HQ, and they have these suckers with bugs, worms, and we swear to god, scorpions. But at least those things are (technically) edible. One mom in Mulberry, Florida found a piece of metal embedded in a lollipop — it was amongst a bag of them she had bought for her son’s Valentine’s Day party.

The candy was X-rayed because a Mulberry woman found metal embedded in a lollipop purchased at a Dollar General Store at 6735 S. Florida Ave., according to the sheriff’s office

Despite the reassuring X-rays, Sheriff Grady Judd says parents who have purchased the Pokemon lollipops should not allow their children to eat them. He also says parents should scrutinize all candy purchased for Valentine’s Day.

Lisa Potter bought a bag of 10 Pokemon Valentine Cards and Pops on Feb. 7. While her son was sorting through them Wednesday night in preparation for taking them to school, he noticed a piece of metal resembling a blade protruding from the corner of the pop. Potter took the candy to the Mulberry Police Department, which called the sheriff’s office.

We personally have a thing against purchasing anything at the Dollar Store that you would put in your mouth, perhaps that wasn’t such a crazy rule after all.

A 13 year old girl chased a Burger King employee around the BK restaurant, demanding they give her a cheeseburger.

Apparently, she was really hungry.

TAMPA - A 13-year-old girl released from the county Juvenile Assessment Center landed back inside after she tried to rob a Burger King at knifepoint over a cheeseburger, police said.

The girl, who was wearing pajamas and socks when she was arrested Saturday, told Tampa police she was hungry when she brandished a kitchen knife inside the restaurant and demanded, “Give me a burger!”

Marie Osmond is having a bad month…year…life. First, she passes out on “Dancing with the Stars”, her father dies earlier in the week and now a line of children’s books that were once an affiliate of her doll merchandising (which has since gone under) provideds a sex line for young girls to call.

Whoops!

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough County librarians are hunting for children’s books with a sex line number.

The Magic Attic series includes more than 30 titles targeting girls between ages nine and 12. The books have an 800 number in the back that now serves as a sex line.