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Neighbors fight empty lots future
Resnick already feels the pinch of new development in Westchase. She believes what's planned for the empty property will turn that pinch into a punch. Developers want to build 220 townhomes, concentrating an already congested sheldon ...
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Dog left to die in home owner arrested
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Residents in one St. Petersburg neighborhood are horrified over what authorities found inside a home. A Great Dane was trapped for days inside without food or water before it died. The owner was nowhere to be found. A sign on the front window says "in case of fire please save our ...
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Miniature therapy horse may be banned
SPRING HILL, Fla. - In many ways, it looks like the ideal home. There's a pool, a white picket fence, a play set and, a pony. Actually, it's a miniature horse, and her name is ...
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Spring Hill man hit and dragged 75 feet
SPRING HILL - Matt Mulch didn't hear the screeching tires or the fighting going on across the street from his Spring Hill house Friday afternoon. But his wife did and told him to go check it out. When Mulch ran out the front door of his home on Fentress Court he found the mangled body of Randall Nelson. "His right leg was akimbo," recalled Mulch. "It looked like it was ...
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Education officials head to Tampa to urge “mitigation” of school grading formula
Concerned that another round of changes to Florida’s testing and school grading formula will paint a dire picture of improving education systems, officials from Miami-Dade and elsewhere on Tuesday are headed to Tampa to urge the State Board of Education to reconsider the way schools are judged.This year, important letter grades will be based in part on new exams, higher proficiency cut ...
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41 nabbed in child predator sting
POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A Disney costume designer, a community leader, and a police academy graduate are among the suspects arrested in sex sting targeting child predators in Polk ...
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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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