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  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...


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Vivre sa vie [DVD]

Vivre sa vie [DVD]

What is most intriguing about the early films of Jean-Luc Godard is how radically different they are, yet how they clearly emanate from the same guiding intelligence. His breakthrough first film, the French New Wave masterpiece Breathless (1959), was a shaky, discontinuous homage ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 2 jump in pond to save disabled veteran

    After double-amputee Robert Lunay fell into a pond behind the DAV, two bystanders, Robert Fields and Norman Steers, heard him calling for help and jumped in to rescue ...

  • Tampa Bay law enforcement pays tribute to fallen peace officers

    -77.017547607422 This year, a contingent of Tampa police officers joined in such an effort and bicycled to Washington, DC, arriving there on Sunday, May 12, 2013, evincing their mantra "We Ride For Those Who Died". ...

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