Tampa, FL -- An Evening with Charles Dickens staring actor Giles Davies will open Thursday at the Mainstage Theatre on the Hillsborough Community College Ybor City campus.

Shows are scheduled for March 3 - 5.

An Evening with Charles Dickens is a light-hearted and varied look at the life and character of Dickens with half of the performance dedicated to his impressions of America from his 1842 visit.

Tampa, Florida - The former credit manager of the Tampa Tribune and his wife have been sentenced for embezzling more than $1 million from the newspaper.

Charles T. Wilson received three years in federal prison on his guilty plea to mail fraud over a 10 year period. His wife, Lynda, got nearly 2 -1/2 years for making a false statement.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said they used a fake collections agency to embezzle more than $1 million from the Tribune between 1998 and 2008, and made false statements about their income on an application for a mortgage loan, by hiding the fact that part of their income was stolen.

Westchase, Florida -- Westchase attorney Martin Schwartz lost his mother to Lymphoma in 1998.  He has been working with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) in her honor to help raise money for the research and cure.  Nearly a million Americans are living with one of these diseases.  The LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research. 

Schwartz has set a goal of raising $50,000 over the next few months to support the cause and is a candidate for the prestigious LLS Man and Woman of the Year Award for 2011.  Multiple fundraising functions have been organized by Schwartz to help reach this goal, including two upcoming events: