The Occupy Wall Street movement gained another local protégé Saturday as Occupy St. Pete took shape in Straub Park on downtown St. Petersburg's waterfront.
The rally became Pinellas County's counterpart to Occupy Tampa, which alternately has been at Lykes Gaslight Square Park and Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa for about two weeks.
Dozens of people joined the rallies on both sides of Tampa Bay on Saturday.
The Occupy Wall Street movement protests corporate greed and demands higher taxes on wealthy people.
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Clearwater police on Saturday arrested one of two suspects in an early-morning shooting in a small park that left two people wounded, one of them critically.
Carlos Benito Jones, 24, was found hiding in the bed of a pickup in the 1200 block of Fort Harrison Saturday afternoon, said Elizabeth Watts, Clearwater's public safety spokeswoman.
Jones was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Police were trying to identify his alleged accomplice.
One victim was "very critical," Watts said.
A staff report
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