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  • Palm Harbor man impaled by tree

    Deputies say 63-year-old Dan Butts and his girlfriend were cutting down a tree. After making the cut and tying a rope between the tree and a SUV, his girlfriend got in and pulled ...

  • Mosquitoes swarm Tampa Bay

    TAMPA, Fla. - Every week, Polly Bates goes to the park to watch her daughter practice lacrosse. But lately, it hasn't been easy. "It's just terrible. It's hard to play out here," she said. Bates says the mosquitoes have gotten so bad, bug spray has become a practice ...

  • Boy 9 finds loaded gun at movie house

    A 9-year-old boy went into the movie theater restroom with his dad Sunday afternoon. After walking into a stall, the boy announced, "Daddy, there is a gun in ...

  • With Basta Ya La Maxima talks DV

    Today, our partners at CBS Radio's launched "Basta Ya." The move by WYUU Radio 92.5 La Maxima brings the Taking Action Against Domestic Violence Campaign to listeners in ...

  • G20 Youth Summit opens in St Petersburg

    The Y20 Russia 2013 summit, which opens on the eve of St. Petersburg’s International Economic Forum, and which is organised at the same venue, will feature 106 young participants from G20 countries and from six countries invited by the Russian chairmanship /Brunei, Spain, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Singapore, Ethiopia/. The event’s objective is a dialogue with G-20 leaders on the basis of ...


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M [DVD]

M [DVD]

Fritz Langs M is one of the great film thrillers, a seminal exercise in combining suspense and social commentary. Its influence on world cinema is so far-ranging that its mind-numbing to try to trace it all. Suffice it to say that M is a prototypical masterpiece, po ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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