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  • Zenits Shirokov sorry for obscene gesture at fans

    Zenit St. Petersburg midfielder Roman Shirokov has apologised for making an obscene gesture at his team's fans during a game. Shirokov was booed by large sections of the crowd during Sunday's 3-1 home win over FC Volga, apparently for congratulating arch-rivals CSKA Moscow on winning the Russian Premier League title on Twitter. After scoring the third goal in injury time, the midfielder ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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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Movie Review

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

By the seventh installment of the illimitable Friday the 13th franchise, it seemed that any hope for originality or innovation was long gone, if it had ever existed to begin with. As a new movie in the series had been released virtually every year since 1980, there just didn't seem to be that much more to add to the tried-and-true stalk-and-slash formula. They had already used the gimmick ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • MLB Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 5

    Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ...

  • Longoria playing as good as Maddon has seen him

    Email TORONTO -- Even before his second-inning leadoff single Monday against the Blue Jays, Evan Longoria was riding a career-high 13-game hitting streak. During the streak, Longoria was hitting .385. In addition, he had reached base safely via hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in a Major League-high 42 games this season. Longoria's solid play has extended to his defense, which has been every bit ...

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