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Rev. Terry Jones plans Quran burnings in Tampa on Sept. 11
TAMPA - The Rev. Terry Jones is planning to burn 2,998 Qurans on Sept. 11 in Tampa, though the exact location of the event has not been announced. But on Jones' Facebook ...
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Marauders fall to Tampa Yankees 2-1 at McKechnie Field
Tampa Yankees (18-24) Monday night at McKechnie Field. It was Bradenton's 10th one run loss of the season. The Marauders are 8-10 in games decided by one ...
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Rookie involved in brawl at Buccaneers workouts
Buccaneers are coming off of an embarrassing season that saw them start with promise but nose dive into a top-15 draft pick. However, the year was an improvement on the season they had in 2011 which means Tampa Bay seems to be on the rise and could fight hard this season. But while the regular season is still months away, ...
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Founder Institute Not enough Tampa Bay entrepreneurs for boot camp
Ressi An institute created to support entrepreneurial projects, the Founder Institute, had announced it would be holding a boot camp in the Tampa Bay-area, but has now cancelled it due to a lack of qualified applicants, it said. The Institute was created by Adeo Ressi, a college dropout who has had started eight businesses including a New York guide program bought by AOL in 1997. Ressi came to ...
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Southgate strikes back Mall making big changes to keep customers
After a series of headlines about major department store departures, Westfield Group created some buzz with plans to renovate Sarasotas Southgate Mall with an outdoor project including retail, restaurants and nightlife. The one-acre addition will add 46,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to the existing mall building in a space that is currently being used as a parking lot, the ...
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IMG unveils $15 million dormitory
The internationally-famed athletics training school, the IMG Academy of Bradenton, opened its new $15 million residence hall on Monday. The academy is a private school for elite athletes from around the world with about 700 students from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate age-levels, the Bradenton Herald said. The state-of-the-art dorm is accessible only by security badges. It has more than ...
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10 things you need to know for Tuesday
C-City Blogger Presenting Chester City's news and views to Delco Times web visitors who want to know more of what's going on in the City besides the stories they read in the ...
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VSI Tampa Bay FC Set to Battle The Rowdies
PLANT CITY | VSI Tampa Bay FC will take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies tonight at at Plant City Stadium after Tampa Bay FC edged Orlando City U23s this past Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open ...
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Deputies say coach head-butted ump
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - "It's the big event at the end of the softball season. It's an exciting and fun time," said Debbie Bretz. It was an All-Star game. The best 12-year old softball players in the Miss Florida Softball League -- Lakeland's Christina Girls versus Auburndale. "It was a difficult game with lots of questionable calls," said Bretz. But the ...
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Local nail salons nailed by the state
But in a special I-Team investigation, we found Florida's Board of Cosmetology has written up less than 100 salons locally for serious citations with fines ranging from $50 to $500 for unlicensed workers, the most serious ...
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Boaters rescued after taking on water
"We noticed a boat on the left side of the vessel taking on water. There were about six, seven people in the water already. And about six on board still. The stern end of the boat was already submerged," Jenkins ...
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Man gets deputys gun badge in robbery
As daylight dimmed Saturday evening, investigators say a man lurked in the shadows before snatching a purse away from Regina Hulverson, an off-duty deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's ...
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Cops Refused drink man stabbed barmaid
Pinellas County deputies said it appears 50-year-old Jim Klingbeil went on a stabbing spree Sunday night after a bartender refused to serve him more ...
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Searching for the winner in Zephyrhills
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. - In a tiny town of 13,000 people, word can travel quickly. Especially when someone in this Pasco County community could claim a prize worth 12 times the city's annual $49 million ...
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Rays look to get back on track behind Cobb
The last time he pitched, Ramon Ortiz picked up his first victory as a starter in more than six years. Now he has a chance for his second in six days. Ortiz will take the ball for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night as they play the second of a three-game series against the Rays at Rogers Centre. Alex Cobb will go for Tampa Bay, which dropped Monday's opener but has still won nine of 12. There ...
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Parents of abortion pill victim speak
Federal authorities say the Lees' 26-year-old daughter's boyfriend, John Andrew Welden, 28, tricked her, at six-weeks pregnant, into taking an abortion pill, called Cytotec. Prosecutors say Welden, the son of a local gynecologist, doctored the pill bottle's label to say the drugs were ...
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Humane Society sterilizes 100 catsweek
Number 18, a black and brown female, headed into the surgical room around 9:30 a.m, where Dr. Karla Bard sterilizes between 10 and 12 cats every ...
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Escobars revelry has new meaning in Toronto
Email TORONTO -- Yunel Escobar experienced a homecoming of sorts Monday when the Rays shortstop returned to Toronto to play before the Blue Jays fans he had played in front of for three years. Based on the boos, one could surmise that the overall reaction was negative, though Escobar did manage to place the final exclamation mark on his return. With the Rays trailing, 7-3, in the ninth, ...
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Deputies Man was gunned down by wife
SEFFNER, Fla. - Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office are investigating what appears to be a case of domestic violence that ended with a husband lying dead in a driveway and his wife in jail. According to investigators, the fight that ended in the driveway on Winston Manor Circle in Seffner started the day before in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart. That's where, ...
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Boutique hotel opens on St. Petersburg bayfront
A look at the Inn's exterior. History and hipness are beautifully blended at The Birchwood Inn on St. Petersburgs popular Beach Drive NE. Chuck and Dr. Kathy Reilly Prather bought the former Grayls Hotel two years ago for $1.85 million cash. Tampa-based Ed Taylor Construction began gutting the three-story, 19,0000-square-foot building in January 2012. Two floors have been added to the ...
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The new look offense for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2013
Credits: BALTIMORE, MD - MAY 18: Matt Joyce #20 of the Tampa Bay Rays celebrates with Ben Zobrist #18 after a 10-6 victory against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 18, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty ...
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WellCare down Tech Data up on Wall Street Video
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Trish Regan, Adam Johnson and Matt Miller report on todays ten most important stocks including Activis, Red Hat and Yahoo. (Source: Bloomberg) It was a day of nominal losses and gains on Wall Street Monday. Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) had the highest gain with 1.31 percent. WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG) had the largest loss, 1.48 percent. This comes after the ...
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Blue Jays hold on to beat Rays 7-5
Toronto - R.A. Dickey won his second straight start, Edwin Encarnacion hit a tiebreaking, bases-loaded double in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 ...
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Tampa to be linked with rest of state via high-speed rail
Tampa may be connected to Orlando via a high-speed railway by 2015 if the project stays on schedule and if politics do not get in the way. But, the long-term future of the grander project may be in doubt, despite the US losing ground internationally.
High-speed rail is a fairly modern advancement on rail travel that has been widely adopted in the modern world as the best form of overland mass transit. Highly developed countries like Japan, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain have adopted high-speed rail extensively. Read more
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