ST. PETERSBURG — Paula Potts remembers growing up in a rough neighborhood in the south part of this city and the tales of blue-clad boogeymen. When black children misbehaved, she said, they often were told a police officer was coming to get them. At age 13, she followed her older brother and sister […]

INDIAN SHORES — “Do Not Enter” signs and a rope marking an oval perimeter separate more than 500 black skimmers and their nests from beach-goers in this coastal Pinellas County community. The black-and-white, orange-beaked birds will hatch their young here by mid-June — if the Audubon Society successfully protects the nesting area as part […]