20060624 - Alex Dindial, 10, of Tampa plays basketball outside All Nations Outreach Church in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood while his mom sang in choir practice inside on Saturday. The afternoon brought a bit of rainfall, and cloudy skies continued into the evening. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060623 - Grayson Austin, 15, (center), of Tampa and other friends line the wall along Tampa Bay while taking a break from the Warped Tour action in Vinoy Park on Friday. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060623 - Ryan Kennedy (center) and other fans rock out during Underoath's set at the Warped Tour in St. Petersburg's Vinoy Park on Friday. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060622 - (Left to right) Trey Curry, Josh Arnold, P.J. Blackwood Jr., and Miles Gorman, teammates at Mike Alstott Football Camp, get their first look at the Buccaneers fullback himself as they come around the corner in line for pictures on Thursday. The league, for kids under 14, meets for four full days at Skyway Park in Tampa. Next week brings the high schoolers version of the camp for their own four days of position drills and scrimmages. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060615 - The sun sets on L'Unione Italiana cemetery north of Ybor City. In the 1890's, the historic Italian organization purchased and dedicated the site at 26th St and 23rd Ave. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060615 - The sun sets on L'Unione Italiana cemetery north of Ybor City. In the 1890's, the historic Italian organization purchased and dedicated the site at 26th St and 23rd Ave. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060617 - Tiffany Click (left) and Kanina James, both of Valrico, look through a book of Claire Castillo's photographs which she believes show "orbs" and other mysterious appearances in the images during the second meeting of the new Tampa Ghost Watchers group. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060617 - The Tampa Ghost Watchers group wanders through the A. Santaella & Co. Cigar Factory building on N Armenia Ave during a break in their Saturday night meeting. They met there to plan future ghost investigations, but thought they would check out the historic building while they were there to see if they felt anything. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060621 - A Toco toucan tosses itself a snack from its feeder inside the aviary at Lowry Park Zoo on Wednesday afternoon. The Toco toucan is native to South American rainforests and is the largest of the toucans, growing to about 25 inches long. Its beak is about 8 inches long, bright orange and black on the tip, and is used for picking up food including mostly fruit. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060616 - (Left to right) Alonzo Williams, 17, William McIntyre, 16, Darius Davis, 19, Adaryl Davis, 17, and Levert Sims, 17 watch warm-ups between games of the Central City Family YMCA's Midnight Basketball League on Friday night. The league began two weeks ago and meets every Friday night starting at 7 p.m. with the goal of keeping Tampa teenagers off the streets with an organized and safe place to play basketball during the summer. The league's teams will continue play through July and will conclude the summer with playoffs to determine a champion. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060610 - La Sociedad of Ybor House of Artists hosted an opening for Information for Smokers, a cross-disciplinary art show, at the Olivo cigar on Saturday night in Ybor City. The name evokes the mutual aid societies in Ybor City in the late 19th and 20th centuries. In that same spirit, we are coming together as a community of arists in various forms working together to promote mutual aid to the artists who live, work, and play in Ybor. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060614 - Alyssa Odum, 6, of Lakeland, attended Flag Day festivities on Wednesday with her grandmother Joyce Odum (right) and grandfather Lavon Odum, both of Lake Wales, outside the Tampa Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Memorial Highway. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060612 - Cynthia Tate was inside her home adjacent to Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands when a small plane struck her house Monday after skidding across the runway and went up in flames. Her husband, Tom Tate (left), looks over the damage from across the street while Cynthia is comforted by neighbors. The pilot was killed, but the co-pilot escaped with burn injuries. Two dogs and a cat inside the house were found dead. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060612 - Stephen Malone, 15, of South Tampa, helps his mom load up their allotment of ten sandbags that they picked up from the Himes Sports Complex, located at 4500 South Himes Ave, on Monday afternoon in preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Alberto. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060610 - Rain, rain, go away? Oscar Sanchez, 3 1/2, and Yahir Rodriguez, 3, show that a little rain didn't put the slightest damper on the birthday party they were attending Saturday by making "water angels" in the puddles on the tennis courts at MacFarlane Park in West Tampa. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060531 - Rogelio Sanchez hugs his neighbor and close friend Lana Gonzalez in his yard at 808 N Armenia Ave during his last night at his old house before he was evicted. He filled the yard with a shine including a white cross and plastic statues during the 15 years he lived there. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060606 - Painter Ray Sotelo applies a layer of paste to the side of a historic Hyde Park home along S. Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon. Sotelo, who has been painting houses for 25 years, was using the paste to fill in scars on surface of the wood siding left by decades of old paint jobs. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060603 - Logan Schneiter, 5, of Land O'Lakes, wanders through the pirate ship at Raymond James Stadium during the Buccaneers FanFest event. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060531 - Calvin Baisley (left), coached his three sons at Land O'Lakes High, including Brad and Brian. Brad spent four seasons in the Phillies organization, and Jeff is currently playing for the A's. Brian, 23, hopes to be drafted next week. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060601 - With a skateboard in one hand and an umbrella in the other, 4th year USF student Del Hardy, of Lakeland, makes his way across the Tampa campus after class and heads out into the rain on Thursday afternoon. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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20060601 - Amelia Enriquez, 26, lifts her newborn son into her bed at St. Joseph's Women's Hospital on Thursday afternoon. Enriquez didn't know she was pregnant with her third child until the week before she gave birth to her yet-to-be-named baby boy. The child was born Wednesday at St. Joseph's Women's Hospital in what doctors said was the 38th week of gestation. In the last few months, Enriquez has been tubing in Ocala, gone 4-wheeling and helped relatives move -- not knowing she was pregnant. Her husband, Osvaldo, had a vasectomy in early October, but her doctor says she conceived in mid-September. The couple already have a 5-year-old girl and a 14-month-old boy. (Times photo by Brian Cassella)
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