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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 ...

  • Boaters rescued after taking on water

    "We noticed a boat on the left side of the vessel taking on water. There were about six, seven people in the water already. And about six on board still. The stern end of the boat was already submerged," Jenkins ...

  • Man gets deputys gun badge in robbery

    As daylight dimmed Saturday evening, investigators say a man lurked in the shadows before snatching a purse away from Regina Hulverson, an off-duty deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's ...

  • Cops Refused drink man stabbed barmaid

    Pinellas County deputies said it appears 50-year-old Jim Klingbeil went on a stabbing spree Sunday night after a bartender refused to serve him more ...

  • Searching for the winner in Zephyrhills

    ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. - In a tiny town of 13,000 people, word can travel quickly. Especially when someone in this Pasco County community could claim a prize worth 12 times the city's annual $49 million ...


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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock [DVD]

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock [DVD]

Following on the heels of the grandly operatic Star Trek II: The Wrath of the Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock feels like it's practically crawling. While in no sense a bad movie, Star Trek III is, nonetheless, something of a let-down, a longwinded paean to the grandeur of Leonard Nimoy's famous Vulcan character, which shouldn't come as much surprise since Nim ... ...

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  • Rays look to get back on track behind Cobb

    The last time he pitched, Ramon Ortiz picked up his first victory as a starter in more than six years. Now he has a chance for his second in six days. Ortiz will take the ball for the Blue Jays on Tuesday night as they play the second of a three-game series against the Rays at Rogers Centre. Alex Cobb will go for Tampa Bay, which dropped Monday's opener but has still won nine of 12. There ...

  • 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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