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  • Third-grade FCAT math and reading scores static

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Third-grade math and reading scores on Florida's standardized test have remained static, while writing scores show a significant jump.Results released Friday show less than two-thirds of Florida's third grade students are performing at a satisfactory level in math and reading on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. There was a 1 percent increase in reading ...

  • Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her ...

  • New Florida Home Sales Stick to Upward Trend

    Sales of new single-family homes nationwide rose 2.3 percent to 454,000 from March to April, a government report Thursday indicated, bolstering positive trends in a Florida Realtors study that showed more sales of existing homes and rising prices last ...

  • Man Finds Safe Filled With Meth in Front Yard

    The man said he found a black bag in front of his house on the 23000 block of Midway Boulevard Wednesday morning, said a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office news release. When he looked in the bag, he found a small Sentry safe containing two plastic bags with what appeared to be ...

  • School Nurse Arrested for DUI in School Parking Lot

    Police found Noreen Freeman, 57, in the parking lot of Baker Elementary School Tuesday after receiving a call about a reckless driver, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office arrest ...

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Eaten Alive [DVD]

Eaten Alive [DVD]

"Eaten Alive" is a bizarre, rarely seen Southern Gothic horror-comedy that has been released at various times under so many different titles (including "Death Trap," "Brutes and Savages," "Horror Hotel," and "Legend of the Bayou") that it's almost impossible to keep track of all of them. This was director Tobe Hooper's much-anticipated follow-up to his wildly successful independent film "The Texa ... ...

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  • Fighting cancer St. Petersburg senior is set to graduate

    ST. PETERSBURG -- This morning Lyndsey Staub put on a little bit of makeup before she left for Dixie Hollins High School. Once there, she hugged-hello her teachers. She ate breakfast with the senior class. But Lyndsey had come on official business. She needed to pick up her cap and gown. Lyndsey, who has struggled to finish high school while fighting cancer, finished up her final credits this ...

  • Fishing can continue at St. Petersburgs Pier for most of summer

    ST. PETERSBURG -- Even as one of Florida's most famous icons closes Friday, some fish in Tampa Bay won't get a reprieve until later this summer. The city will continue to allow people to fish from the Pier approach until later this summer. "The access will be opened back up to fisherman probably within one or two weeks," said David Metz, St. Petersburg's downtown ...

  • St. Petersburg District 4 candidate will not challenge residencies of opponents

    ST. PETERSBURG -- Carolyn Fries, one of the three candidates seeking the District 4 City Council seat, said the Redistricting Commission should not be allowed to alter district boundaries in an election year. She declared that Friday after the Tampa Bay Times found Thursday that her two opponents, Dr. David McKalip and Darden Rice, don't currently live in the district. "I think the ...

  • Sunrise man accused of raping child 6

    A 25-year-old man is accused of raping a 6-year-old girl and covering up the assault by telling the child's mother that incriminating blood she saw on a bed and on her daughter's clothes came from an injured pet cat, according to a Sunrise police report. Luis Fernando Cardona Jr., of Sunrise, was arrested Thursday and charged with sexual battery on a victim under 12. He is being held ...

  • Fur flies over cat dissections at South Florida schools

    She started an online petition against the practice last school year when her son, then a freshman at Lake Worth High, refused to dissect a cat as part of the school's medical program. So far, more than 5,000 have joined her ...

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