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  • Hernandez looks to improve on road woes vs. Os

    Jair Jurrjens has spent the 2013 season in Triple-A, two years after making the National League All-Star team. On Saturday afternoon, he will get a chance to show that he doesn't need a return trip. Jurrjens will take the ball for the Orioles in the second of their three-game set against the Rays at Camden Yards, as he fills in for the injured Wei-Yin Chen. He will oppose Roberto Hernandez ...

  • Black bear once captured in Orlando captured again in Tampa

    Parramore neighborhood causing a mini-panic last year has once again been captured, only this time in a Tampa subdivision.The estimated 300-pound male wandered 125 miles from ...

  • Rays hold on to beat Os 12-10

    BALTIMORE (AP) - Kelly Johnson hit a three-run homer and an RBI single, and the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 12-10 victory over the slumping Baltimore Orioles on Friday ...

  • Ken Venturi dies at the age of 82

    RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Former U.S. Open champion Ken Venturi has died just 11 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was ...

  • I-Team Drowning video raises questions

    http://wfts.tv/18R5m5c . The I-Team obtained exclusive surveillance video from the Schillingford family's attorney and spoke to Jesse's parents about why they believe his death could have been prevented. In the video, taken by several surveillance cameras at the rec center, a large crowd of children and adults can be seen in and around the pool, as well as inside the nearby gym area. ...


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Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police is an equal-opportunity offender satire for people in the middle -- you know, all those political independents who had a hard time making up their mind about who to vote for because theyre equally off-put by the Republicans holier-than-thou self ... ...

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  • Report Michael Phelps planning comeback

    The son of the U.S. national swim team director is reporting that Michael Phelps is planning a comeback for the 2016 Rio Olympics.Peter Busch, whose father Frank oversees the American program, is a news anchor at WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla. A brief story from the younger Busch posted on the station's Web site Friday evening says Phelps is plotting his return to the ...

  • Students driven to sex offenders home

    LAKELAND, Fla. - A Polk County school bus driver, caught on cell phone video bringing a busload of middle and high-school aged students to her house to allegedly fight in the front yard, lives with a registered sex offender. Patrice Sanders, 29, of 1133 Enterprise Street in Lakeland was arrested last week ...

  • Local student in National Spelling Bee

    But it's Lee's spelling abilities that are being recognized. Competing in The Scripps National Spelling Bee in our nation's capital is his reward for winning the Polk County regional ...

  • Lakeland neighborhood fighting RaceTrac

    For the last three years, residents in the Christina subdivision in Lakeland have been fighting the RaceTrac gas station and convenience store. The Atlanta-based company wants to build right next ...

  • DRUGS Molly a pure form of Ecstasy

    "And we've brought it up at all of our presentations in the community to make sure that people are aware of it and that it is called Molly, and it's not your child's friend named Molly," said ...

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