Metro Cornucopia

Sometimes the Metro section at the St. Pete Times is the jewel of the paper. I spent a long time with it this morning, reading bits of stories about desperados and lunatics outloud to my wife, who pulled out the A section before I could grab it. My luck.



Rebecca Catalanello: TAMPA — The man started coming around about six weeks ago.



He was an unemployed electrician. Fifty-two years old. A nice guy, though given to drink.



Pastor Jarvis Ball liked the man. An electrician himself, Ball fed him, clothed him, invited him to attend services at Covenant of God Ministries here in Sulphur Springs.



And the man did.



At some point in his life, through what Ball calls "circumstances,"…