Conference focuses on housing choices

Submitted by Gillian Finklea, Web Producer, 10 News In Your Neighborhood

Saturday, April 13th, 2013, 12:15pm

Pinellas County, Florida -- The Tampa Bay Fair Housing Consortium will present Housing Choices, Free of Discrimination on Friday, April 19.

Check-in is at 8 a.m. The program runs from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The day-long conference will be held at the Centre Club, 123 S. West Shore Blvd. in Tampa.

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Baseball: South Florida State College vs. Polk State College

Submitted by Taylor Katz, Web Producer, 10 News In Your Neighborhood

Saturday, April 13th, 2013, 9:49am

Baseball: South Florida State College vs. Polk State College

Avon Park, Florida-- The South Florida State College baseball team will host Polk State College today.

The game will take place at the SFSC Panther Field on the Highlands Campus in Avon Park at 1 p.m.

Tickets are only two dollars!

Click here for SFSC's full 2013 spring schedule.

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Over 70 trailers stolen, sold in scrap metal scheme

Submitted by Taylor Katz, Web Producer, 10 News In Your Neighborhood

Friday, April 12th, 2013, 10:05pm

Polk County, Florida-- Three men have been linked to over 70 citrus trailer thefts that occurred all over Polk County between 2010 and 2013.

According to Polk County Sheriff's officials, brothers Ruben and Richard Ramirez, 39 and 31-years-old, worked alongside 60-year-old Donald Mosley to steal the trailers from various citrus packing houses, and then sell the metal to scrap dealers in Polk, Hillsborough and Hardee Counties.

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WeatherCall: Get alerts when severe weather hits

Submitted by Kristin Weber, Web Producer, 10News In Your Neighborhood

Friday, April 12th, 2013, 6:34pm

WTSP is pleased to bring state-of-the art, personal storm warning services to the Tampa/Saint Petersburg area.

Recent improvements in how the National Weather Service defines warning areas have resulted in significantly higher accuracy and smaller warned areas, compared to the decades-old county-wide warning method. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sbwarnings.

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Bucs accepting noms for "Mother's Day Makeovers"

Submitted by WTSP Web Staff

Friday, April 12th, 2013, 1:25pm

Tampa, Florida -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Fourth Annual "Mother's Day Makeover" program is giving away a once-in-a-lifetime experience to 50 mothers from Central Florida in honor of Mother's Day.

Continuing the tradition from 2012, the Buccaneers are excited to support military moms who go above and beyond for their loved ones.

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"A new day" for Florida's foster children

Submitted by Dave Heller on Thursday, April 11th, 5:12 pm

Tallahassee, Florida -- Foster children in Florida have to live by very different rules than a typical kid. They can't just go to the beach with friends without getting approval from the state or they can't join a soccer team without consulting their case manager.

The children, and their foster parents, thought the rules went too far.

That all changed on Thursday. Foster children and their parents gathered at the state Capitol to celebrate legislation that removes many of those unreasonable regulations.

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