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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 ...

  • Josh Freeman Not Bothered by Competition

    Head Coach Greg Schiano repeated on Monday that Josh Freeman is the Bucs' starter, and both he and his quarterback dismissed the notion that Mike Glennon's arrival has Freeman looking over his ...

  • Jodi Arias lawyers want off case

    The brief day was marked by a series of legal arguments in which defense lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case and said they would put on only one witness: Arias ...

  • Large tomato growers assets to be sold in sealed bids process

    About 7.000 acres will be auctioned off in June and July. The assets of East Coast Brokers and Packers, including farms, packing houses, the Red Rose Hotel in Plant City, a former Bible college and labor camps, will be offered for sale in a sealed bid process in June and July. The Mulberry-based company, once one of Floridas largest tomato growers and shippers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

  • John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival reunion a possibility

    (CBS News) John Fogerty, frontman and the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, says of a reunion with the legendary group -- "it's possible." Appearing on "CBS This Morning" on Monday, he said, "From time to time, I'll say something and it'll get in print that maybe that will happen, and then immediately I'll hear back stuff that ...


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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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  • Zephyrhills a hotspot over Powerball win

    The secretary of the Florida Lottery showed up in Zephyrhills on Monday, talking about what's next for the $590 million Powerball jackpot winner. She also brought a big check with a lot of zeros on it. "We'll take them through the steps, to go through the claiming of the ticket, the validating of the ticket, make sure it's a legitimate ticket. And they'll we'll work ...

  • St. Petersburg Denies Zenit Arena in New Trouble

    ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (R-Sport) - St. Petersburg's vice governor responsible for construction on Monday denied claims by Russia's federal Audit Chamber that the city's 2018 World Cup football stadium might not be complete until 2017. Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said earlier on Monday that the best-case scenario is for construction of the $1.1 billion arena to be finished ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Cleveland Indians: 1. ...

  • More connections of the week Disneys Yellow Shoes Creative Group

    Want to know about more events where readers can learn and connect? The Tampa Bay business community loves to network and there is not always enough space in the Tampa Bay Business Journal print edition to include a deeper offering of events coming up the next week. We will now begin sharing extra events for the upcoming week. In general, were interested in including events that are ...

  • Woman questioned in fatal shooting

    HILLSBOROUGH - A Hillsborough County woman was taken into custody following the shooting death of a man at 130 Winston Manor Circle. Officials received a call just before 6 a.m. Monday. The female suspect is being questioned about the shooting. Stay with ABC Action News and abcactionnews.com for the latest ...

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