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Man in foreclosure threatens deputies

According to PSO, deputies went out to Pridham's home at 24847 Gun Smoke Drive in Land O'Lakes after several people reported that Pridham was making threatening remarks to law enforcement on his Facebook ...
FDLE Zephyrhills sex offender had 27000 child porn videos

ZEPHYRHILLS -- A convicted sex offender kept at least 27,000 videos depicting child pornography, according to authorities who raided his house and arrested him Wednesday morning. Billy Jim Herrington, 39, faces 25 counts of possession of child porn, a third-degree felony. State and local law enforcement agencies served a search warrant at his home, at 38114 Seventh Ave. in ...
Rays beat Red Sox 6-2

Boston - Desmond Jennings homered, Jeremy Hellickson pitched six strong innings and the Tampa Bay Rays ended their drought at Fenway Park, beating the Red Sox 6-2 Wednesday ...
Abortion pill case heats up as doctors son seeks bail

TAMPA -- He said he was sorry. He wanted to die. He called himself a "coward" and a "horrible person," court records state. "I'm sorry I ruined everything," John Andrew Welden told girlfriend Remee Jo Lee after she accused him of causing her miscarriage by slipping her a drug. In the federal court system, that's the sort of detail that might not come out ...
Transformers The Ride filled with thrills at Universal Orlando

ORLANDO -- In this dizzied land of theme park madness, where battles for tourist dollars are fought by fairy tale princesses and fuzzy penguins, Universal Orlando today officially launches the Sunshine State's latest, and by all means loudest, big-thrills offensive, Transformers: The Ride. Cinderella might want to trade out her tiara for a helmet. This new sucker is ...

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An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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MLB Tampa Bay 6 Boston 2

Evan Longoria had three of Tampa Bay's 15 hits Wednesday and had an RBI during the Rays' game-breaking inning that pushed them to a 6-2 win over Boston. Tampa Bay was protecting a 3-2 lead heading into the seventh, during which the Rays scored three times. Longoria singled home the first run of the inning and then scored along ...
Neighbors rally against SoHo Flats

TAMPA, Fla. - All that's growing on the Tampa property at 936 S. Howard Avenue are weeds in the sidewalk cracks. Yet, neighbors believe the new growth planned for the site is even ...
Largo day care on probation after leaving behind 11-month-old child

LARGO -- It was a Friday evening last month and staffers at a Largo day care center had locked up and gone home for the weekend. But they failed to check all the cribs, and in one, an 11-month-old child was sleeping. The boy's father arrived at 7:15 p.m., nearly 30 minutes after the last employee had left. When he couldn't get in, he called a day care supervisor and his son was ...
Message in a bottle from Tampa finds broken-hearted man

-- Michael Souvigny was hunting hogs in Green Cove Springs, just south of Jacksonville, when he noticed a green bottle on the banks of the St. John's River. The welder, 25, saw paper inside. He broke the glass, wiped dirt from his hands and read a letter, dated August 2001, to his rifle-toting buddies: "To whoever finds this bottle: may you be blessed as the two of us. May you find ...
Hillsborough wont prevent candidates from serving on boards

TAMPA -- Conservative activist and School Board candidate Terry Kemple will retain his eligibility to serve on appointed Hillsborough County panels. Reversing a vote from two weeks ago, county commissioners Wednesday dropped a proposal to deny candidates for elected office from serving on appointed boards. The decision came as commissioners were set to ratify the prohibition. Commissioner Mark ...

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Florida man stripped naked, beaten and robbed at gunpoint during first date

A man in Florida has reported to the police that he was beaten, robbed, stripped naked and abandoned on the side of a road during a first date in Bunnell.

Shaun Williams was spotted by the police on a state road in Bunnell, covered in blood, and was taken to a local hospital, the New York Daily News reported.

According to FlaglerLive, Williams met a woman in a Daytona Beach convenience store about two weeks ago.

After some conversation, they exchanged phone numbers and decided to meet for their first date on Friday.

The woman agreed to pick Williams up from the convenience store where they first met, the report said.

The woman, whose real name has not been released, showed up in a dark blue sedan along with two other men, one she called her brother, and the other her brother's friend.

She told him that she needed to drop them before going on their date.

The girl drove for several minutes before the brother told her to turn into a side street, as he wanted to meet someone.

When Williams came out to take a bathroom break, a hard metal object hit him and he fell on the ground.

The attackers then allegedly pointed a gun and demanded for money and clothes.

The men forced him to hand over his prepaid cell phone, his Florida driver's license, 200 dollars in cash and all of the clothes he picked out for his first date, FlaglerLive stated. ...