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Former MLB All-Star sued over nonpayment of home renovation bills

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A local homebuilder is suing former Major League Baseball All-Star Gary Sheffield and his wife, Deleon, for outstanding payments owed on home renovations. According to a lawsuit filed April 9, the Sheffields contracted with LYH Custom Building and Remodeling for improvements and additions to their home located at 932 Anchorage Road in Tampa. According to LYH, more than $2 million in labor and materials have been used in the remodeling project on the 9,234-square-foot home and that construction is 90…

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Bartender’s lawsuit raises questions about cutting off drunk patrons

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A bartender who was stabbed repeatedly by a patron she refused to serve is now suing the bar where she worked at the time. Rebecca Schaefer was stabbed multiple times by James Klingbeil with a filet knife. Schaefer was hospitalized with serious, but not life-threatening wounds after the incident at Lana’s Red Lion in Indian Rocks Beach. Klingbeil was sentenced to 15 years in prison last year. But Schaefer is suing the bar because she says they did not do…

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Popular Clearwater Beach Sandpearl Resort sued for wage theft

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Clearwater Beach’s Sandpearl Resort is the defendant in a lawsuit alleging wage theft. Three current or former employees who worked as in-room servers at the resort filed a suit on behalf of themselves and a group of unnamed others claiming the resort forced them to work about five hours per week of unpaid overtime. The suit was filed by Aris Poloska, 25, Romeo Nasellari, 23, and Blerim Kambo, 34, last week. The suit does not specify how many others are…

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State Rep. Tom Grady files lawsuit demanding Charlie Crist return contributions

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From the Naples Daily News: Linda Morton of Naples donated $500 to Gov. Charlie Crist’s Senate election campaign, while John Rood of Jacksonville, a retired U.S. ambassador, donated $4,800 to the Republican. Now they want a refund. The two have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all contributors who are demanding their money back after Crist announced he’d run as an Independent. “Crist has made it clear that he believes a candidate should not say one thing and do another,”…

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Rich Heffley added as defendant in Mendelsohn-Ryan civil suit

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More legal trouble has landed in the lap of Alan Mendelsohn, a Hollywood doctor and former big-time Republican fundraiser who pleaded not guilty in September to a 32-count public-corruption indictment and in June to five criminal tax charges. Mendelsohn was recently added as a defendant to a Broward civil lawsuit filed by former state Rep. Tim Ryan in 2008 involving the state Senate race he lost to Eleanor Sobel. Political consultant Richard Heffley was also added as a defendant. Ryan’s suit accuses a secretive…

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Jim Greer asks for suit against RPOF to be put on hold

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Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer on Friday asked a Sanford judge to put a temporary hold on his lawsuit against the party and its new chairman while he battles criminal charges. Greer was arrested at his Oviedo home last week on theft, fraud and corruption charges. A statewide grand jury handed up an indictment, accusing him stealing $125,000 from the Republican Party of Florida. Party leaders first denied the existence of the severance contract and later admitted there was one —and…

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Group protests Times’ suit against city ***Updated with photos from protest***

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Some are upset about a recent lawsuit opposing the city’s recent ban on street solicitation. About 35 people waved signs in front of the St. Petersburg Times building Sunday to protest the suit filed by the paper’s parent company against the city of St. Petersburg. “I just don’t appreciate the Times suing the city for a valid ordinance,” said Jeremiah Rohr, 56, who held a sign saying “Drop the suit or Drop the Times.” The group congregated between 10 and 11 a.m.…

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