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Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona
TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...
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Barber’s Honor a Highlight During Sneaker Soiree Event
Ronde Barber's record-breaking 200th consecutive start to open the 2012 NFL season was one of the moments recognized during the Tampa Bay Sports Commission's annual Sneaker Soiree ...
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Student Shot In The Leg At Redland Middle School Near Miami
A teenage student was shot in the leg at a middle school south of Miami Friday afternoon, sending the campus into lockdown. Miami-Dade Police said investigators were questioning a classmate who allegedly brought the firearm inside a backpack to Redland Middle School in Homestead. Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told NBC6 ...
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Abortion pill cases link Tampa woman to stranger in Oklahoma
TAMPA -- Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled egg. Caylinn Young, 25, of Oklahoma felt isolated in her experience until she read recently about a Lutz woman named Remee Lee, 26, who miscarried in March, reportedly under similar ...
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Communications satellite launched into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...
Movie Review
Vanilla Sky [DVD]
Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. It is a romantic melodrama, a murder mystery, an existential thriller, and a perplexing dream-logic puzzlebox, not to mention a barely disguised cinematic meditation on the larger-than-life perfection ... ...
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Judge rejects request to exhume bodies at school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A circuit judge is rejecting a request to exhume human remains on the site of a now-defunct Panhandle reform school.Judge William Wright, who is based in Jackson County, ruled Friday against the request made by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.Bondi's office filed the petition in March. There is believed to be unmarked graves on the school site. Wright in his ...
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Holiday weekend crowds way down from boom in Miami Beach
the place for Memorial Day weekend revelers, with hot acts, sold-out hotels and can’t-miss parties that cater to African-American crowds.Just two years ago, hotel occupancy averaged more than 85 percent over the weekend with daily rates about $260 — far higher than the month’s average of 74.4 percent occupancy at $195 a night and the holiday weekend’s highest numbers in ...
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Students gets chess lessons aplenty
Williams Elementary fourth-grader Dejayauna Johnson, 11, challenges Lincoln Middle School eighth-grader Davis Washburn, 14, to a game of chess Friday. Washburn was playing three other students at the same time, and every time he came back to Johnson's board the pieces were in different places so he accused her of cheating. Johnson told him to bring it on, and Washburn replied, "Now I ...
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Paralegals attorney says no setup in Tampa DUI case
TAMPA -- The paralegal at the center of scandalous allegations of a DUI setup talked to prosecutors behind closed doors Thursday. But the attorney for Melissa Personius contends there was no plot by the paralegal's bosses to get C. Philip Campbell, their opposing counsel, arrested on a DUI charge in the middle of a heated trial. "It wasn't like, 'Get this guy drunk, get him ...
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Virginia Tech tops Georgia Tech 3-2 in ACC tourney
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Chad Pinder drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to help Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, clinching an appearance in Sunday's ...