20060527 - A member of the Colombian Navy stands onboard the ARC Gloria ship while visitors explore the vessel on Saturday afternoon. The ship, with a crew of 150, is docked near Cruise Terminal 3 in Channelside and is open for exploration beginning at 9 a.m. for free each day through the weekend before it departs next week. The stop in Tampa is part of a trip that will include Corpus Christi, Texas, and Veracruz, Mexico, next before it returns home to Cartagena, Colombia. The 67-meter long ship was built in Bilbao, Spain in 1968. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060525 - Megan Broderick, the Times high school girls tennis player of the year, of Alonso. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060519 - Stephen Brown paints the ceiling in front of the 23 foot-long, 1550 gallon "Great Tank" that is part of the new Aquariumania exhibit at the Florida Aquarium. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060522 - The Empire State Building. (Brian Cassella)
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20060522 - Patrick Murphy (left) and Sarah Passe, both of New York, cross 112th Street on the Upper West Side. (Brian Cassella)
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20060523 - A body is removed from a car that was found Tuesday in the Hillsborough River in the Seminole Heights neighborhood, near Rivershore Drive and W Powahatan Avenue, while a Tampa police diver is washed clean behind them. The Tampa Police Marine Patrol recovered the green Acura, whose description matches the one driven by Freddie Lee Johnson when he went missing April 30. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060518 - Sebastian Figga, 4, stands at the head of the line of his Durham Bulls baseball team during their end-of-the-year awards ceremony on the field at Shimberg Park in Town-N-Country on Thursday night. The Bulls finished the year in second place in the Shetland Division of their PONY Baseball league. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060511 - Wavley Mark Groves, of Brandon, in his home office and "imitation newsroom." Groves had a long career in radio and is now retired because of a disability, but stays closely involved in news. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060517 - (Left to right) Courtney Kagan, Channing Kehoe, and Brian Kelley wait to walk down the stairway to the Sun Dome floor for their graduation from Palm Harbor University High School. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060513 - Vincent Tres, 1, of Tampa, dances to the music with Mathilde Time (left), who is originally from Haiti, during the Tampa Haitian Flag Day event at Lowry Park on Saturday. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060512 - West Boca shortstop Alyssa Palmieri has Chamberlain's Jessica Mouse caught in a rundown. West Boca defeated Chamberlain 2-1 in the State 5A softball semifinals at Plant City Stadium. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060510 - A Wolf's guenon hangs out at Lowry Park Zoo on Wednesday. It is one of six monkeys recently rescued from Africa's bush meat market that have been at Lowry Park for about three weeks. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060508 - The Sheridan Hills Christian bench celebrates along with their fans in the bottom of the 7th inning as their victory was in sight over Cambridge in the state Class A semifinal softball game on Monday in Plant City. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Greg Whidden has earned his nickname. Dogs wailing, "Spook" jumps on his horse and vanishes into the woods, chasing down elusive and wily wild hogs inside Kissimmee Praire State Preserve. They do not go gently into that good night. At 54,000 acres, the preserve is a showcase of delicate wire grass, banana-colored wildflowers, gator-infested sloughs and mysterious hammocks that serve as a veritable box of animal crackers for endangered species. Hogs are anything but endangered. In Florida, they are something like the computer virus of the mammal world, known for a voracious appetite for fragile native plants, birds, snakes and small animals. A couple of hungry hogs, rooting for vittles during the wee hours, can turn a lush field into a moonscape by sunrise. The state hires folks such as Whidden to get rid of them. (Times photo by Brian Cassella; Text by Jeff Klinkenberg)
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20060421 - A captured wild hog lays inside of the Spook's trailer on a foggy morning. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Yelling to his dogs as he walks with a flashlight along the dirt road, Spook calls for them to pick up the scent of the hogs. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - "If you're gonna catch him, your heart better be in it. If you turn loose his head and hold him by the tail, things ain't gonna be pretty," - Greg "Spook" Whidden. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Hollering "Thooo-ugg!" out the window of his truck as he crawls along the dirt road, Greg "Spook" Whidden calls for his dogs to pick up the scent of wild hogs inside Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park on a foggy morning before dawn. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Mabry Murphy's dogs hop off the back of the pick-up truck to join him in trying to pick up the scent of a wild hog inside Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Spook carries a captured female wild hog to put it inside his trailer. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Spook jumps onto his horse, Trigger. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Greg "Spook" Whidden unties a wild female hog he has just caught before loading it into his trailer. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060421 - Mabry Murphy gives one of his dogs a helping hand back into the trailer before moving on to another stop to search for hogs. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060505 - Tampa firefighters apply an oxygen mask to an injured kitten they found in the smoldering remains of an abandoned house near Ybor City on Friday afternoon. Firefighter Javier Ortega, 36, (right) planned to take the kitten home. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060504 - Mylin Serrano and her daughter Natalie Ruiz, 19. Mylin is the widow of Det. Juan Serrano, Mayor Pam Iorio's driver and bodyguard, who was killed in a car crash by a suspected drunk driver after dropping off the mayor earlier this year. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060427 - The All-American Rejects open for Fallout Boy at the Sun Dome. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060427 - Fans of the All-American Rejects watch as they open for Fallout Boy at the Sun Dome. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060502 - Chris Finezeo, of Fort Lauderdale, cools off with a bottle of water while setting up mannequins for the annual Macy's Display and Prop Sale on Tuesday. The sale will be held in the lot just east of the Macy's Furniture Gallery, at 4020 Gandy Blvd., on Thursday and Friday this week from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sale features a variety of mannequins and other decorative items and will be held rain or shine. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060502 - Sherah Jones, of Fort Lauderdale, positions an umbrella on a mannequin. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060502 - Macy's employees hunt for the arms to match a limbless mannequin. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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