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  • Man threatens to kill Pasco sheriff

    LAND O'LAKES, Fla. - Chris Kilgore, 18, was just hanging out with a few friends at a McDonald's on Land O' Lakes Blvd. when he remembers Robert Fernandez pulling up. Kilgore says Fernandez, 51, tried to befriend them and was acting "erratic." "It just kept getting more and more weird. He started acting real strange," said Kilgore. A homeless man then told the ...

  • Red Sox sweep Rays in doubleheader

    Boston - Jonny Gomes hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, completing a doubleheader ...

  • Dont write off Alex Sink running for Florida governor just yet

    TAMPA -- Alex Sink barely lost the 2010 governor's race to Rick Scott, and as she weighs whether to take him on again there is no shortage of armchair shrinks speculating about her thinking: o The sudden death in December of her husband, former gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, was too big a blow for her to run another grueling campaign without him. o Sink wants to run because she ...

  • ESE school bus no-show for 2 days

    TAMPA - "The exact time was supposed to be 1:44." "I'm waiting for Ari's bus. Do you know if the bus ever showed up to pick him up?" "By the time I get him, is the bus going to show up and I'm going to miss him in between-- that's the problem." These are the phone calls Silvia Weitzman made in her front yard Tuesday. Weitzman's son, Ari, ...

  • Increase in storage unit burglaries

    More than seventy units were broken into at the Uncle Bob's storage facility on West Hillsborough Avenue. In video obtained by Action News, you can see one of the suspects, with what appears to be a screwdriver in his mouth, hop onto a motorcycle and unsuccessfully try to start ...


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Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Ten years after he reinvented the American horror film with the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero returned to his story of the world being taken over by zombies in Dawn of the Dead, a film that is every bit as shocking, inventive, inte ... ...

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  • Gumshoe Denis Quilligan faced down corruption organized crime

    ST. PETERSBURG -- Because of his laid-back demeanor and drawl, colleagues sometimes compared Denis Quilligan to former NFL quarterback and wisecracking broadcaster Don Meredith. The people he helped put in prison might remember someone a bit less folksy. During his 23 years with the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's office, the last 19 as chief investigator, Mr. Quilligan did the legwork on ...

  • Pasco School Board to sue Citigroup over fraud allegations

    LAND O'LAKES -- Rushing to beat a June 30 deadline, the Pasco School Board on Tuesday decided to sue Citigroup over allegations of fraud in bond issuances from 2007 and 2008. The district stands to recoup up to $10 million if the action is successful, superintendent Kurt Browning told the board in recommending the suit. It does not face any out-of-pocket costs to pursue the ...

  • No charges in toddlers drowning Seminole County Sheriffs Office says

    Authorities Tuesday identified a toddler who drowned last week in a backyard pool as Keira Alanna Buckroth.Keira, who would have turned 2 next month, hadn't been seen for about 15 minutes before her 24-year-old stepbrother found her floating in the swimming pool in the backyard of their home on Pecan Court in Seminole County June 12, a Sheriff's Office report states.After the ...

  • USF fields tough questions about its branch campuses

    TAMPA -- After a half-hour presentation about the good things the University of South Florida has been able to accomplish -- medical research, science and math degrees, graduation rates, veterans services -- there came some tough questions. The main campus in Tampa was doing great. But what about the other branches? The grilling was part of an annual exercise by the Board of Governors, which ...

  • Irelands walk on prosthetic legs is first step in years-long process

    Ireland Nugent used new prosthetic legs Tuesday to walk through her family's front door in Palm Harbor, just yards from where her lower legs and feet were amputated in a lawn mower accident 10 weeks ago. Two-year-old Ireland took her first steps on a set of test prostheses Monday at Prosthetic and Orthotic Associates in Orlando. Tuesday, they picked up the finished limbs. "She just ...

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