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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 ...

  • VSI Tampa Bay FC Set to Battle The Rowdies

    PLANT CITY | VSI Tampa Bay FC will take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies tonight at at Plant City Stadium after Tampa Bay FC edged Orlando City U23s this past Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open ...

  • Deputies say coach head-butted ump

    HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - "It's the big event at the end of the softball season. It's an exciting and fun time," said Debbie Bretz. It was an All-Star game. The best 12-year old softball players in the Miss Florida Softball League -- Lakeland's Christina Girls versus Auburndale. "It was a difficult game with lots of questionable calls," said Bretz. But the ...

  • Local nail salons nailed by the state

    But in a special I-Team investigation, we found Florida's Board of Cosmetology has written up less than 100 salons locally for serious citations with fines ranging from $50 to $500 for unlicensed workers, the most serious ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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