Top Headlines: Homicide, Bloomingdale Big Box, Felon's Death and More

1. Residents React to Commissioners' Bloomingdale Big-Box Stance

Working to ensure necessary transportation improvements fell far short of what "Say No to Bloomingdale Big Box" supporters said they expected from their elected officials. The residents spoke on video at the Fred B. Karl County Center on May 15.

• See also Commissioners Say Plans for Bloomingdale Big Box Out of Their Hands

• Residents Flock to Big-Box Meeting at Bloomingdale Church

• Neighbors Rally Against Bloomingdale Big-Box Development

• 'No Bloomingdale Big Box' Event Set for Rush-Hour Traffic (includes reader comments)

• Opposition Preps for Big-Box Development Protest

• Bloomingdale Residents Continue To Fight Big-Box Development(includes link to a petition that as of May 14 has garnered more than 1,050 signatures)
  

• Higginbotham Fields Big-Box Development Question (video and reader comments posted at Brandon Patch)

• Commissioner Answers Big-Box Development Question (video and comments posted at Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch)

2. Actors Reflect on 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' Roles

The Village Players is on stage with Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" at the James McCabe Theater in Valrico. Remaining show dates are May 23-25 and 30-31. Also, June 1.

The first of its kind in the nation, Wok Chi opens in Brandon, with a May 11 benefit for the Brandon Sports and Aquatic Center.

Store surveillance video leads to the arrest of a man believed to be homeless, wanted in the death of Wilkin Mieses Baker, who was discovered lying face down in the grass at the north side of Extra Space Storage off Providence Road.

5. Residents React to Wheeler Road Deputy Involved Shooting

The investigators and reporters that disrupted a neighborhood's peace brought out a good number of onlookers, there to see the investigation under way on West Wheeler Road in Seffner.

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• See Sheriff Gee: Deputy's Shot Kills 'Career Criminal'

 

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