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Bucs Give Crabtree Room to Grow

Tampa Bay believes TE Tom Crabtree has the potential to produce at a higher level, given the opportunity, and the former Packer is excited about the ...
Homeless mans dog Handover found

Handover was Bryan's best friend for the next five years, even after he lost his farm, his car, and most of his personal belongings. Homeless and living along U.S. 19 in Hudson, Handover was always by Bryan's ...
Oklahoma tornado unlikely to impact Florida property insurance market

Florida's troubled property insurance market shouldn't feel any ripple effects with higher rates because of the devastating Oklahoma tornado, insurance experts say. "This is a tornado that occurred in Oklahoma," said Bob Hartwig, an economist and president of the Insurance Information Institute. "This doesn't have any impact on the cost of homeowners insurance in ...
Boat catches fire near Anclote Key

TARPON SPRINGS -- A 20-foot boat caught fire Wednesday afternoon near Anclote Key, an island located west of Tarpon Springs and Holiday. Flames and smoke shot from the boat's cabin, said Tarpon Springs Deputy Fire Chief Donald Sayre. At some point, two men and a dog were aboard. By 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sayre said, no injuries had been ...
Company pitches high-speed ferries for Tampa Bay

TAMPA -- Greg Dronkert said his company gets many requests from people hoping his company will start passenger ferry service in their community. The president of HMS Ferries Inc. told a group of civic leaders in Tampa Wedneesday he is usually skeptical about such inquiries. But lawyer Ed Turanchik was persuasive in his pitch that a market exists here and, after further study, Dronkert was ...

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The House on Sorority Row [DVD]

Mark Rosman's The House on Sorority Row is a mid-'80s slasher flick that has been largely forgotten, which is unfortunate because it's one of the better ones, an interesting and generally entertaining addition to a genre that is often characterized by a lack of creativity and mindless repetition. The House on Sorority Row actually has a story in addition to a lot of young people bei ... ...

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Weightman Middle mom stole $5200 from PTA Pasco deputies say

WESLEY CHAPEL - For the second time in a week, a Parent Teacher Association officer at a Pasco school has been arrested on charges of taking PTA funds. In her role as treasurer of the Weightman Middle School PTA, Jocelyn Ann Severson embezzled $5,199.25 between September 2011 and February of this year, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. She concealed her transactions, the ...
Vandals hit Mitchell High School four teens arrested

TRINITY - Four suspects were arrested this week in connection with a vandalism case at J.W. Mitchell High School. On Friday, trees and a building on campus were doused with paint. Nails scattered in the school parking lot damaged students' and faculty members' cars. Cigarillo wrappers hung from the roof. A school resource officer arrested the four suspected vandals on Tuesday and ...
Tiger has surgery for giant hairball

A 400 pound tiger was scheduled to undergo surgery today to remove what is thought to be a giant hairball. The tiger, who belongs to animal trapper Vernon Yates is undergoing the surgery at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Clearwater. Surgery is expected to take a couple of hours, according to the animal hospital. Yates operates the Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation center in ...
TIA launches self-service technology for passengers

Tampa International Airport Tampa International Airport is launching two new customer-facing self-service technologies from FlightView. Flight-in-Sight shows travelers the exact location of the incoming aircraft that will be their outbound plane and Destination Weather Live tells passengers information about weather affecting flights, according to a statement. The content for both displays will ...
Evergreen Eagle to lay off 44 at TIA

Evergreen International Aviation Inc. will lay off 44 workers at Tampa International Airport on Friday, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with Florida regulators. The companys Eagle division provides baggage-handling services at TIA. Calls to the Oregon-based company were not immediately returned Wednesday. In March, Evergreen issued a statement about its $276.3 ...

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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said.

The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida.

The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and two Massachusetts state troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man about the blasts that killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

"A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," the FBI said, adding that a special agent, "acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries".

The FBI initially said their agent had killed Todashev, but an updated statement left unclear the question of who had fired the deadly shot.

Police have blocked off the apartment complex where the Chechen immigrant was shot.

Todashev was reported to be a friend of dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew through their shared hobby of mixed martial-arts fighting. ...