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Authorities say a Ruskin man tricked his kids before abducting his estranged wife.
BY ANASTASIA DAWSON
Times Staff Writer
Meteorologists are calling
for as much as 20 inches of
snow in New York City. The
National Weather Service
has warned of blizzard conditions with wind gusts over
35 mph and low visibility
that could extend from the
Philadelphia area to Maine.
The weather already has
led to dozens of flights at
Tampa International Airport
being canceled or delayed.
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RUSKIN — When her dad
called and asked her to leave a
window open in her mom’s Valrico home on Friday night, the
14-year-old girl obeyed.
A judge refereeing marital
strife had barred parents Trevor
and Alisa Summers from seeing
each other. But the father told his
eldest daughter they could put
all those worries behind them if
he just talked to her mom. Her
parents could finally reconcile,
he told the girl, but it would take
privacy and time.
He then handed the 14-yearold the keys to his car and told
her to drive her siblings to his
home and wait for the good
news.
But that’s not what happened.
Instead, the Hillsborough
County Sheriff’s Office said, Trevor Summers kidnapped his wife
early Saturday morning, tying her
wrists and holding her captive in
the back seat of her sport-utility vehicle until deputies found
them about 10:30 a.m. Monday in
the carport of a waterfront home
in Ruskin.
When found, Alisa Summers
had a cut on her wrist and her
husband had a self-inflicted stab
wound to his neck, Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee said. She
jumped from the car and was
hysterical, but alive, Gee said.
Trevor Summers, 39, resisted
deputies until finally allowing
an ambulance to take him to a
nearby hospital for treatment.
Now he is in custody and facing charges of kidnapping, grand
theft of his wife’s vehicle and
.
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Report:
Health
care loss
for 24M
Florida’s legal fees
more than $250M
An Associated Press investigation has found that since
2011, Gov. Rick Scott and
other top Florida Republicans have spent more than
$237 million on private lawyers to advance and defend
their agendas. Florida
taxpayers also have had to
reimburse nearly $16 million
for their opponents’ private
attorney fees. Local,1B
Tampa adds flight
to Salt Lake City
Congressional budget
analysts project the
2026 uninsured figure
under the GOP plan.
Salt Lake City has been a
coveted route that Tampa
airport officials have been
trying to bring back to the
market for years. Delta Air
Lines is launching a nonstop
daily flight from Tampa International Airport starting Dec.
21. Local,1B
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Drivers can expect
relief at the pump
Final plans for an amphitheater in Clearwater’s waterfront Coachman Park are a long way off. This spring, Clearwater
and Ruth Eckerd Hall will present three concerts on a temporary stage in Coachman Park that will help inform how an
amphitheater could be designed.
AAA experts are predicting
that gas prices could drop
up to10 cents in the coming
weeks. Gas prices have hovered around $2.15 a gallon in
the Tampa Bay area for the
past week, but a downward
trend in prices is expected
through the spring break
travel season. Business, 6B
COZY IS CATCHING ON
A proposed amphitheater for Clearwater’s waterfront would
join a trend of cities creating more intimate music venues.
Players tell stories
behind tattoos
Most ballplayers spend
more than 200 days in
uniform with their names
across the back of their jerseys, but a handful of guys
in the Rays’ spring clubhouse have opted for a more
permanent solution with
their names tattooed across
their backs. Sports,1C
BY JAY CRIDLIN
Times Pop Music/Culture Critic
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CLEARWATER
ev Buffman wants to bring Margaritaville to Coachman Park.
“Let’s just dream,” he said, “but
Jimmy Buffett is a partner and
friend of mine from years ago.
Jimmy would rather do, when he can,
two shows, back to back, with 5,000-plus
(fans) on a lawn than what Live Nation
now has in Tampa at the fairgrounds.”
Considering Buffett’s likely to sell
out Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union
Amphitheatre this June, that may or
may not be true — as Buffman said, it’s
a dream. But it could happen if the city
embraces Ruth Eckerd Hall’s vision for
a new outdoor amphitheater in Coachman Park.
The amphitheater is the splashiest aspect of a 10-year, potentially
$55 million proposal to renovate downtown Clearwater’s waterfront that was
approved by the City Council in February. Larger than 2,100-seat Ruth Eckerd Hall, but smaller than the 20,000seat MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, the venue would be part of an
industry trend toward the “boutique
amphitheater,” said Bobby Rossi, Ruth
Eckerd Hall’s executive vice president
USF women make
NCAA Tournament
It’s no surprise that the team
earned an at-large bid, but
being placed as a No.11 seed
is a bit of a head-scratcher to
coach Jose Fernandez, who
said he had “no idea” how
that could have happened.
USF has a first-round
matchup with Missouri on
Friday. Sports,1C
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They’re all the rage.
In May, the Jacksonville Jaguars and
city of Jacksonville will open the 5,500seat Daily’s Place, part of a $90 million
renovation of EverBank Field. It will
join the $1.5 million, 10,000-capacity
.
How does it compare?
Midsize amphitheaters have been built
in St. Augustine, Miami and Orlando.
And one will open in Jacksonville soon.
See how they compare to the Clearwater
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Renderings by HR&A Advisors, which prepared a study for the city’s “Imagine
Clearwater” waterfront development project, included a “bandshell.”
WASHINGTON — House
Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposal
to revise the Affordable Care
Act would lower the number of
Americans with health insurance
by 24 million while reducing the
federal deficit by $337 billion by
2026, congressional budget analysts said Monday.
According to a Congressional
Budget Office projection, 14 million fewer people would have
health insurance next year alone.
Premiums would be 15 percent to
20 percent higher in the first year
compared with the Affordable
Care Act and 10 percent lower on
average after 2026. By and large,
older Americans would pay “substantially” more and younger
Americans less, the report said.
The report from the Congressional Budget Office fueled concerns that the GOP health care
plan would prompt a dramatic
loss in health insurance coverage, potentially contradicting
President Donald Trump’s vow
that health care reform would
provide “insurance for everybody” and threatening support
from moderate Republican lawmakers.
Yet it also boosted House leaders’ efforts to persuade skeptical
conservatives, who felt that the
measure did not go far enough
in repealing the Affordable Care
Act, to support what the CBO
now predicts will be deficitreducing legislation.
The analysis immediately
prompted a clash of reactions
between the White House and
Republican leaders. Trump’s
budget director, Mick Mulvaney,
said the report is “just absurd,”
and Health and Human Services
Secretary Tom Price said: “We
disagree strenuously” with it.
Ryan defended the report, saying that it proves that the proposal will “dramatically” reduce
the deficit and usher in “the most
New deadline for wiretap proof
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Officials say Alisa Summers
had a cut on her wrist and
Trevor Summers had a selfinflicted stab to the neck.
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WASHINGTON — Facing a
Monday deadline, the Justice
Department asked lawmakers for
more time to provide evidence
backing up President Donald
Trump’s unproven assertion that
his predecessor wiretapped his
New York skyscraper during the
election. The request came as the
White House appeared to soften
Trump’s explosive allegation.
The House Intelligence Committee said it would give the Jus-
tice Department until March
20 to comply with the evidence
request. That’s the date of the
committee’s first open hearing
on the investigation into Russia’s
interference in the 2016 election
and possible contacts between
Trump associates and Russia.
A spokesman for the committee’s Republican chairman said
that if the Justice Department
doesn’t meet the new deadline,
the panel might use its subpoena
power to gather information.
“If the committee does not
receive a response by then, the
committee will ask for this information during the March 20
hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions
continue to go unanswered,” said
Jack Langer, a spokesman for
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
Trump’s assertions have put
his administration in a bind. Current and former administration
officials have been unable to pro-
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Press secretary Sean Spicer said using quotes on Twitter shows
President Donald Trump wasn’t literally discussing wiretapping.