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  • Polk residents may face tax for rivers

    LAKELAND, Fla. - Residents in unincorporated Polk County may soon be paying for a new tax to help clean up the county's dirtiest rivers, lakes, and ...

  • Rogue locksmiths reigned in

    TAMPA - Mechanics, moving companies, even telemarketers all have to be licensed or registered with the state to do business in Florida. But not bay area locksmiths, whose ads fill up pages of Google searches and the local yellow pages. Steven Wyman president of the Westcoast Locksmith Association says he has waited a decade for county commissioners to tackle what he calls an epidemic. All seven ...

  • Yankees Jeter takes batting practice in Tampa

    Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has taken on-field batting practice for the first time since being cleared to increase his rehabilitation program for a broken left ankle.Jeter took 21 swings on Wednesday at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. He looked comfortable at the plate, hitting balls to all fields.The Yankees captain has also increased his movement by taking grounders and ...

  • Search of Lake Jovita ends fruitless

    So many were hopeful that something in the lake would help crack the cold case, but dive teams came up with nothing and wrapped up around 2:00 Wednesday ...

  • Second arrest in pregnant womans murder

    BRADENTON, Fl - Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube announced a second man has been charged in the 2009 shooting death of Crystal Johnson. Johnson, then 19, was seven months pregnant. Evverick Houston is now facing two first degree murder charges. "This is a blessing from God," said Susan Moore, Johnson's mother. According to deputies, Crystal was at home with her boyfriend when ...


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And Everything Is Going Fine [Blu-Ray]

Spalding Gray made his living talking about his own life, so it is only appropriate that And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderberghs documentary about/tribute to the late actor/writer/monologuist, allows Gray to speak of his life and its signific ... ...

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  • Hernando man tried lighting ex on fire

    HERNANDO, Fla - Hernando County deputies say a man just released from prison tried lighting is ex and her new boyfriend on fire Tuesday morning. Sylvester Francis Kulaga is now on the run. Kulaga, deputies say, was released from prison at little after midnight on June 15. He was locked up since November on various drug and larceny charges. Deputies say on June 18 around 6 a.m., Kulaga went to ...

  • VIDEO Waterspout touches down in bay

    TAMPA BAY - Mother nature put on quite a show for motorists crossing Tampa Bay bridges early Wednesday afternoon. A waterspout formed and touched down between the Howard Frankland and Gandy bridges and took a spin across the bay. The funnel cloud formed around 12:30 p.m. and held together for about eight or nine minutes as it moved from the southwest to the northeast. It did not make it to shore ...

  • Michael Adams Earns Ticket to Camp with Mini-Camp Tryout

    The Buccaneers signed seventh-year CB Michael Adams on Wednesday and released rookie G Jeremy Lewis, marking the second player they have added following a two-day tryout during last week's ...

  • St. Petersburg Open Plans to Double Prize Fund to $1M

    MOSCOW, June 19 (R-Sport) – In an attempt to stock its draws with big-name tennis stars, the St. Petersburg Open is planning to double its prize fund to $1 million, organizers said on Wednesday. Since 2008, when then-world No. 4 Andy Murray won the title, only one top-10 player – Russian Mikhail Youzhny, who was ranked ninth at the time – has appeared at the hard-court ...

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