The public is invited to a series of free Bucs practices, with autograph sessions, free parking, a merchandise tent, discounted concessions and appearances by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleaders and Captain Fear, with the first this morning , Saturday, and Sunday at 8:45 am.

If you take the Howard Frankland into St Pete, you’ve probably noticed the new welcome sign on the right, and it’s just about ready to welcome us and the many RNC delegates. The sign is almost 80 feet high and was being planned for eight years. It should be complete by the 15^th.

The Rays dropped game three yesterday against Baltimore 6-2, and now head to Anaheim and the Angels for a weekend series.

After that big explosion in Lutz in a home making their own synthetic marijuana, a major drug raid in Holiday yesterday netted agents over 100,000 packets of the synthetic marijuana better known as spice, and all the machinery and ingredients to make more. Charges are likely in both Hillsborough and Pasco counties

Homeland security is involved in the case against Ronald Brown on federal charges he was planning to kidnap children. There was a second warrant to search his home in Largo yesterday, and he remains in federal custody.