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  • Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn enjoy relaxing day aboard yacht

    Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn were spotted soaking up the sun on the golfer's yacht in Florida on Tuesday. Woods, 37, was photographed shirtless as he fished off the back of the boat named Solitude in a baseball cap, shorts and sneakers, People Magazine reported. Woods' daughter Sam from his marriage to his ex-wife Elin Nordegren was also hanging out on the boat, People magazine reported. ...

  • Lowe others reflect on his 10-year tenure

    For all intents and purposes, Lowe's 10-year tenure as a city commissioner and then mayor ended shortly before midnight Thursday in a sparsely populated meeting room at City Hall.It was another marathon meeting, but this one was Lowe's last.Commissioners told stories of serving together. Commissioner Randy Wells recalled one about Lowe calming a group scared of a snake on a sister city ...

  • Many workplaces insure domestic partners some now also pay the tax on benefits

    Rob Rosenwald (left), an assistant city attorney and his partner Thomas Barker (right) are shown outside of city hall on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The city has domestic partner benefits and is weighing whether to pay the federal taxes on those ...

  • New owners of St. Petersburg ALF have imperfect record

    ST. PETERSBURG -- The new owners of the Palazzo Di Oro, an assisted living facility that closed suddenly two years ago amid financial turmoil, may have problems of their own. In recent years, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has found dozens of deficiencies at facilities operated by Senior Management Advisors of Clearwater and fined them thousands of dollars. The state agency ...

  • Man dies after crashing into school bus

    PLANT CITY, Fla. -- A man driving a pickup truck died after crashing into a Tampa Bay area school bus.The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports that 66-year-old James Allen Flint died at the scene Friday afternoon.The bus driver and three students from Plant City High School were on the bus when it was knocked onto its side. Two students were taken to a nearby hospital with minor ...

Movie Review

Double Suicide (Shinju ten no amijima) [DVD]

Double Suicide (Shinju ten no amijima) [DVD]

Much like the teenage lovers in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the adult lovers in Masahiro Shinoda's Double Suicide (Shinju ten no amijima) find that their love for each runs into a wall erected by a structured society that will not permit it. While Shakespeare's ill-fated lovers were caught in the cross-hairs of familial feuding, the lovers in Double Suicid ... ...

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  • Pill mill doc pleads guilty to drug tax charges

    MIAMI -- A South Florida doctor is facing up to two decades in prison after pleading guilty to drug and tax charges arising from an illegal pill mill operation.Dr. Stephen Anthony of Davie entered his guilty pleas Friday to conspiring to illegally dispense large amounts of oxycodone, money laundering and tax evasion. He will be sentenced Oct. 4 in Miami federal court.Over a 10-month period, ...

  • Fox News Does What Florida Refused To Do Gives Allen West A Job

    Omigod, remember when I was talking about Allen West the other day and mentioned that he clearly needs a job, what with boredom obviously driving his conjured conspiracy theories and breathless attempts to create ‘scandal’ with nary a shred of logic or ...

  • Black bear once captured in Orlando captured again in Tampa

    Parramore neighborhood causing a mini-panic last year has once again been captured, only this time in a Tampa subdivision.The estimated 300-pound male wandered 125 miles from ...

  • Man Says He Caught Largest Burmese Python on Record

    Wrestling a Burmese python wasn't exactly what 23 year old Jason Leon planned when he visited the Everglades with his buddies last week. He was riding ATV's near Florida City when they saw a sight they'll never ...

  • Woman Says Thieves Spent $9000 on Her Credit Cards

    She says the store manager told her there was nothing they could do because the cashiers don't check identifications when somebody uses a credit ...

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