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Palm Harbor pharmacist pleads guilty in health care fraud scheme
Pharmacist Samuel Wahba faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Pharmacist Samuel Wahba has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, lying to a federal agency, making false claims to a federal health care program and concealing his exclusion from all federal health care programs. In 2001, he was convicted of violating the state racketeering law, Medicaid fraud and ...
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Florida Bank gets capital commitments
Florida Bank and the Treasury earlier agreed to wind down the banks nearly three-year-old involvement in the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Florida Bank Group Inc. is a step closer to repaying its TARP investment from the U.S. Treasury. The banking company has received commitments for more than the minimum amount of capital it targeted in a private placement offering sent to investors last ...
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Oswald to communicate decision on whether he will stand for IOC President after St Petersburg
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Bucs Give Girl Scouts a Peek at the Business of Pro Sports
More than 80 local Girl Scouts visited One Buccaneer Place last week to get an up-close look at the careers available in sports, with Buccaneer women professionals gladly sharing their own experiences and ...
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Arsenal striker Andrey Arshavin fails to impress Zenit St Petersburg
Arsenal expires at the end of the month."He hasn't played much for lately. Why? You would have to ask him that question," their coach Luciano Spalletti said in reference to the former Russia captain, who joined Arsenal from Zenit for 15m in early 2009.Arshavin, who turns 32 next week, rejoined Zenit on a three-month loan from Arsenal in February last year after but failed to ...
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Rookies Kick Off Summer of Service at St. Joe’s
Continuing a Buccaneer tradition, the team's rookies visited St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa on Wednesday to raise the spirits of pediatric patients and kick off a series of charitable ...
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Marauders hammer Tampa Yankees 12-4 at McKechnie Field
Tampa Yankees (19-26) 12-4 for the second straight night at McKechnie Field. Adrian Sampson (2-1) pitched five innings and did not allow an earned run despite nine Yankees hits in the ballgame. Tampa left eleven men on base Thursday ...
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WTSP is Tampa Bay’s most watched TV station in May sweeps
Ratings for local newscasts may not mean much to the average television viewer, but they are vital statistics that determine the bottom line of the stations that are fighting for those eyeballs out there. The May 2013 Nielsen ratings period has concluded ...
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Rally held before Hunts plea deadline
SEBASTIAN, Fla. - It's a countdown for 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt. She and her family took one last stand at a rally in Sebastian's Riverview Park, ahead of Friday's deadline for her to accept or reject a plea deal from the state ...
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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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