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Here’s the latest the Q105 News: The Tampa mom accused of murdering her kids could face the death penalty. A Bradenton pastor being held in Haiti returns home. And, the Tampa City Council is preparing for an NFL Iockout.

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The death penalty is still on the table for a mother accused of murdering her two teenage children. According to Bay News 9, Julie Schenecker’s lawyer needs more time to decide on whether an insanity defense is his client’s best chance in court. Both sides have asked a judge to extend the deadline to make their decisions. 

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The Bradenton pastor who has spent the past five months in a Haitian jail is now home. Daniel Pye and his wife had been living in Haiti to run a home for abandoned children, but a judge threw him in jail without cause or charges. There was apparently confusion over his residency card, but he was finally released after a judge found the 29-year-old had done nothing wrong. Pye is back in the area just in time for his wife to give birth to the couple’s second child. Pye says that both he and his wife plan to return to Haiti one day and resume their charity work.

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St. Petersburg Police are looking for the man who fired several shots from a high-powered rifle into a house that was filled with six children, whose ages range from 2 to 15. The shooting happened at a home on Eighth Avenue South. Detectives counted at least nine bullets that were fired at the home. Already, the case has drawn parallels to a similar shooting that claimed the life of two-year-old Paris Whitehead-Hamilton back in 2009. St. Petersburg Police say murder suspect, Dwayne Bailey, left the children alone to go commit murder, and the shooting at the home is believed to be retaliation.

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Members of the Tampa City Council are making contingency plans if there is an NFL lockout this season and Raymond James Stadium goes unused. The city agreed to a plan, already approved by the county, that would require the Bucs to reimburse the Tampa Sports Authority for any ticket surcharge money it won’t be able to collect. Combined, the city and county could lose one-point-two-million dollars, but plans are already being made to cut those losses. A Kenny Chesney concert, tomorrow, and soccer matches in June will help cover any potential losses.

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A family member is coming forward to give a proper burial to the remains of a Marine veteran who was killed in a Hillsborough County biking crash last fall. The body of Edward Weber was unclaimed, after a November crash when a Jeep rear-ended his bicycle. Since then, a cousin has come forward and now Weber’s ashes will be kept at a veterans’ cemetery in Illinois.

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Repair work at the Crystal River nuclear power plant is on hold after new gaps were found in a containment wall at one of the closed reactors. There is no threat to the public, as engineers try to repair the separation in the containment wall and bring the reactor back online. The reactor was shut down in the fall of 2009 for routine refueling when a gap was discovered in the concrete wall surrounding the Number 3 reactor. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was supposed to meet next week and discuss restarting the reactor, but this latest discovery forced the cancellation of the meeting.

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Japan is dealing with disaster on three fronts, a week after an unprecedented earthquake and giant tsunami laid waste to parts of northeastern Japan. Then, there’s the ongoing situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Engineers conceded, earlier today, that they may not be able to cool the reactors and could have to encase at least some of them in concrete to prevent further radiation leaks.

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While some data suggests radiation from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant may reach the West Coast of the U.S. today, the consensus seems to be that it will be a non-event. Experts say the amount of radiation that arrives there will be so small it would pose no threat to humans. In the area of the Fukushima plant, winds are blowing from the northwest and out over the Pacific Ocean. That could push trace amounts of radiation all the way to the West Coast before the end of the day.

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New numbers on autism were released. Two separate government studies show that roughly one in a hundred American kids have some degree of the disorder. That’s up by half from two years ago. The number jumps to one in 58 for boys.

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