CONFUSION OVER TWO DENISES: Reporters and debate moderators are prone to confuse Denise Lasher with Denise "Dee" Layne, and with good reason: Both are 47-year-old Republican women who live near Lutz's Livingston Avenue. Now voters stand to be confused, as both are running to replace Jim Norman on the Hillsborough County Commission.

Both candidates foresaw the dilemma. Layne adopted the nickname "Dee," a remnant of the childhood "Dee Dee." Lasher hammered home "Denise Lasher" in big horizontal signs using both names. [Wayne Garcia] said he believes Lasher has more support, and therefore more to lose if her voters come to the polls confused.

APARTMENT RESIDENT DROWNS IN CARROLLWOOD: Hillsborough County sheriff's investigators were investigating the drowning of a Carrollwood man found dead in an apartment complex hot tub Wednesday morning. James Donald Cousins, 35, was discovered by a neighbor about 5:45 a.m. in the hot tub at the Arbors of Carrollwood apartment complex on Ehrlich Road. Cousins, a resident of the complex, was last seen sitting near the hot tub on the pool deck about 12:30 a.m. Foul play was not suspected.