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BY MOLLY HUNSINGER USFSP Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Flashing her contagious smile and spreading cheerful morning greetings, Lane DeGregory buzzes around the newsroom of the Tampa Bay Times like a bee pollinating flowers. She stops at her photo- and memento-filled cubicle to gather a few folders and pops open the tab of a Diet… Continue reading At the age of 6, she knew what she wanted to be

BY MICHAEL S. BUTLER NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When a cross burned on their front lawn in 1961, Ralph and Bette Wimbish probably weren’t surprised. For years, they had battled the barriers of segregation in the courts, the streets and the marketplaces of Pinellas County. They were used to hostile stares and telephone… Continue reading They shared a childhood of tense times, warm memories

BY KRISTIN STIGAARD NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – If you’ve been to a concert in the Tampa Bay area recently, you have probably seen Jay Cridlin. He’s the tall man with a black goatee who’s up front, intently absorbing the performance. Cridlin, 35, is the pop music/culture critic for the Tampa Bay Times, a… Continue reading He rocks ‘n’ rolls in a music buff’s dream job

BY ZACHARY GIPSON-KENDRICK NNB Student Journalist February in Plant City typically marks the start of 11 days filled with festivities, music and the crowning of a strawberry queen. This year Tampa Bay Times photojournalist Eve Edelheit, 26, and reporter Anna M. Phillips took a less-than-traditional approach to the annual celebration. They went behind the scenes… Continue reading Photojournalist finds her bliss behind the camera

BY DUNCAN RODMAN NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – The news media shines when it comes to exposing the negative. That’s good news for crime and courts reporters like Curtis Krueger, 56, a Tampa Bay Times staff writer for 27 years. The public wants to know about the most heinous crimes in their communities, and… Continue reading Unsavory people and heinous crimes? That’s his beat

BY ALYSSA MILES NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG— After he graduated from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs in 1999, Markus Hughes made two life-altering decisions. The first decision was to join the police department in St. Petersburg – 1,500 miles away – rather than sign up for the military or the Peace Corps.… Continue reading By being honest about who he is, he makes a difference

BY SARAH NORCINI NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When LaDai Haywood was a fifth grader, she appeared in a promotional video for her new school, the Academy Prep Center for Education. Someday, she vowed, she would return to the St. Petersburg private school to show the students they could succeed. Thirteen years later, she… Continue reading 13 Years later, she’s back as a teacher and role model

Photos and story BY CANDICE RESHEF NNB Student Reporter In many black churches, faith meets fashion atop the heads of female worshippers. Fancy, colorful hats are a fixture in sanctuaries everywhere, especially for older women and especially on Easter and Mother’s Day. The congregation at St. Petersburg’s Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church at 955… Continue reading A Sunday tradition in black churches: faith and fancy hats

Photos and story BY TONI DEFOREST NNB Student Reporter In 18 years at the Tampa Bay Times, John Pendygraft and his cameras have covered some of the biggest stories of the era – hurricane in New Orleans, tsunami in Asia, earthquake in Haiti, friction in the Middle East. But turmoil in the newspaper industry and… Continue reading For Times photojournalist, life’s a day at the beach

Photos and story BY SEAN LEROUX NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG — It all started with beer-battered fish. While brainstorming about how to improve a seafood dish at St. Petersburg’s Bella Brava restaurant, head chef Ty Weaver decided to batter the fish in beer he brewed himself. It was not long before the restaurant was… Continue reading Pop open a cold one at Midtown’s 3 Daughters Brewing