POLICE BRIEFS

MANATEE — A Gaelic good-luck charm draws a $2,250 fine.

Edwin Torres

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LAKEWOOD RANCH — An enthusiastic crowd of more than 500 jammed a ballroom Saturday night at the Polo Grill and Bar to hear Pam Tebow, the mother of University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebow.

Nice playing field.

MANATEE — A man sentenced to life in prison for strangling his mother, having sex with her dead body and then killing his grandfather is appealing to the Second District Court of Appeal for a new trial, according to court documents filed last week.

When I think of the Fort Hamer Bridge project, it makes me think of the “Tennessee Waltz.”

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MANATEE — Audrey Garrison will always remember Cassie, the cat she couldn’t catch.