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Why is marijuana illegal? How the 1933 Ybor City ax murders bolstered case to criminalize cannabis

A madman who may have been high on marijuana when he killed five members of his Ybor City family with an ax before escaping from a mental institution and eventually committing suicide set the stage for banning the use of cannabis. ....

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No search for graves on Tampa shuttered Catholic school property

Archaeologists suggest its possible hidden graves could lie under a shuttered Tampa Catholic school property, however a search has not been cleared. ....

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How Florida's newspapers grew, prospered and struggled

Journalists across the state continue to tell the stories that become the first draft of Florida history, no matter how those stories are delivered. ....

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100 years later, Tarpon Springs Hurricane reminds Tampa Bay it can happen here

100 years later, Tarpon Springs Hurricane reminds Tampa Bay it can happen here
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A new memorial will recognize an ugly past

Updated Mar. 2
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.
âAt this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,â it said, âcondemned by a secret council of 15 of St. Petersburgâs most influential citizens, he was then turned over to a mob of 1,500 white residents and murdered.â ....

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