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  • 15-year-old to graduate from Blake High

    TAMPA, Fla. - As he walks across the campus at Blake High School in Tampa, Ahmed Mohamed looks like your average student that's eager for the school year to end. But Ahmed walks a path that few others have ...

  • Detectives will monitor Largo gun show

    LARGO, Fla. - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office plans to monitor a gun show this weekend as they increase enforcement of an ordinance that closes the so-called "gun show ...

  • New skatepark opens in Lakeland

    The new, state of the art, Lakeland Skatepark opened this week to crowds of anxious skaters. Just a few days in, and some people are driving more than 100 miles to check it ...

  • Termites season swarms Tampa Bay area

    TAMPA, Fla. - It started with wings, lots of broken off wings. After awhile, Michael Haddock broke down and called an exterminator. That's when he learned, inside the floor of his newly-rented south Tampa home, there are termites. "It was a nice little Saturday morning surprise that we had," Haddock said. Haddock will soon have to get his home tented, which is a sight pest control ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

    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: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...


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Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

Loosely based on the story of The Supremess astronomical rise to musical superstardom during the turbulent 1960s under the auspices of Motowns Berry Gordon, Dreamgirls was a hit Broadway musical in 1981, winning a plethora of Tony Awards and running for 1,522 performances. The vague ... ...

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  • Tampa stocks go into long weekend on a mostly up note Video

    May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Alix Steel, Adam Johnson and Julie Hyman report on todays ten most important stocks including The Gap, Sears and Procter & Gamble. (Source: Bloomberg) Stock prices for most of the largest publicly traded companies in the Tampa area gained ground in advance of the Memorial Day weekend. Bloomin Brands (NASDAQ: BLMN) posted the biggest jump, one day after pricing a ...

  • Man arrested year after childs death

    A Tampa man has been arrested a year after his former girlfriend's 2-year-old died from severe brain trauma. According to Tampa police, Javaurian Saffold was home alone with the child on May 25, 2012 before the child's mother, Candace Mitchell, arrived home to find her son breathing shallowly. Tampa police arrested Mitchell on May 28, 2012 for aggravated child abuse for failing to seek ...

  • Eckerd College researchers define entrepreneurial mindset

    What constitutes entrepreneurial mindset? Researchers at Eckerd College may have solved the puzzle. Tired of the many anecdotes and existing studies on innovation and entrepreneurial mindset, Director of Coaching at the Leadership Development Institute, Jennifer Hall, and colleagues Mark Davis and Pam Meyer created The Entrepreneurship Dimensions Profile to gain a definitive understanding of the ...

  • USF College of Nursing receives $2.1 million award for cancer study

    The University of South Florida College Of Nursing has received $2.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a clinical trial involving cancer symptom management. The project involves testing a brief intervention known as COPE, which aims to teach cancer patients management skills for improving symptoms they identify as the highest priority, according to a written ...

  • Boom in boom repair reflects uptick in construction Video

    Tyler Smith, business development vice president at Certified Boom Repair Services, talks about what his firm does and how busy it is. Florida politicians and economic development officials love to describe construction cranes as the state bird. Its nearly impossible to build structures of any size without one, so business activity in this heavy equipment sector tends to reflect the pace of ...

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