How did the coronavirus overwhelm a Seminole nursing home so quickly?Story by , and Times Staff Writersarjorie Blackman arrived for her shift at the Seminole Pavilion nursing home on a Saturday in April, stopping at the front door for a temperature check. The nurse had been tired and short of breath, and now, she had a slight fever. She didn’t know that a patient had died the day before after testing positive for the coronavirus.An immigrant from Guyana, Marjorie had gone back to school in her 50s to become a licensed practical nurse. Now 67, her three-hour daily commute was exhausting, and...…How did the coronavirus overwhelm a Seminole nursing home so quickly?Story by , and Times Staff Writersarjorie Blackman arrived for her shift at the Seminole Pavilion nursing home on a Saturday in April, stopping at the front door for a temperature check. The nurse had been tired and short of breath, and now, she had a slight fever. She didn’t know that a patient had died the day before after testing positive for the coronavirus.An immigrant from Guyana, Marjorie had gone back to school in her 50s to become a licensed practical nurse. Now 67, her three-hour daily commute was exhausting, and...WW…

Detectives have renewed search for answers after Netflix series drew attention to 1997 case. Last weekend, a boat with cadaver dogs and sonar puttered around a small lake in Seffner, searching for the body of Tampa multi-millionaire Don Lewis.The search was organized by a group devoted to solving his disappearance.Video of the search, posted to Facebook, showed a black German shepherd barking animatedly in the middle of the lake as a crew filmed for Netflix. But divers plumbed the murky brown water and didn’t find anything.It’s been about three months since Tiger King lured 64 million...…Detectives have renewed search for answers after Netflix series drew attention to 1997 case. Last weekend, a boat with cadaver dogs and sonar puttered around a small lake in Seffner, searching for the body of Tampa multi-millionaire Don Lewis.The search was organized by a group devoted to solving his disappearance.Video of the search, posted to Facebook, showed a black German shepherd barking animatedly in the middle of the lake as a crew filmed for Netflix. But divers plumbed the murky brown water and didn’t find anything.It’s been about three months since Tiger King lured 64 million...WW…

/Monique Worrell, who supported the death row inmate’s request, wins Democratic primary for state attorney in Orlando.Last year, attorney Monique Worrell oversaw the Ninth Judicial District State Attorney’s Office review of the case against death row inmate Tommy Zeigler. At the end of it, she urged State Attorney Aramis Ayala to allow Zeigler to test the evidence against him for DNA.. She said it would not outright exonerate him of killing his wife and three others at his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975, just raise more questions about his guilt.Last week, Worrell won...…/Monique Worrell, who supported the death row inmate’s request, wins Democratic primary for state attorney in Orlando.Last year, attorney Monique Worrell oversaw the Ninth Judicial District State Attorney’s Office review of the case against death row inmate Tommy Zeigler. At the end of it, she urged State Attorney Aramis Ayala to allow Zeigler to test the evidence against him for DNA.. She said it would not outright exonerate him of killing his wife and three others at his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975, just raise more questions about his guilt.Last week, Worrell won...WW…

/In 1914, John Evans was attacked by an angry mob and killed before a jury or judge weighed in.Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing.Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible.“At this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,” it said, “condemned by a secret council of 15 of St....…/In 1914, John Evans was attacked by an angry mob and killed before a jury or judge weighed in.Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing.Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible.“At this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,” it said, “condemned by a secret council of 15 of St....WW…

We were reunited by his hospital bed, as doctors and nurses worked to save him. The call came at 8:03 on a Thursday morning.A nurse on my father’s memory care floor said he’d been at the breakfast table, coughing and breathing food into his lungs.“I’m not sure what’s going on,” she said, “but if it’s okay with you, I want to send him to the ER.”It was July 9. After four months of keeping the coronavirus at bay, two employees on my Dad’s floor at The Fountains of Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg had tested positive the week before.I immediately assumed the worst — that the virus had found...…We were reunited by his hospital bed, as doctors and nurses worked to save him. The call came at 8:03 on a Thursday morning.A nurse on my father’s memory care floor said he’d been at the breakfast table, coughing and breathing food into his lungs.“I’m not sure what’s going on,” she said, “but if it’s okay with you, I want to send him to the ER.”It was July 9. After four months of keeping the coronavirus at bay, two employees on my Dad’s floor at The Fountains of Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg had tested positive the week before.I immediately assumed the worst — that the virus had found...WW…