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  • Chinese language contest held in St Petersburg

    /enpproperty--> ST PETERSBURG - A Chinese language proficiency competition featuring student teams from five Russian regions was held here on Tuesday, with the winners set to sail into an international contest to be held in China. In the city's iconic Hermitage Theater, university teams from St Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and a joint Siberian team took turns ...

  • Yet More Bucs in the Top 100

    After seeing Dashon Goldson, Gerald McCoy and Darrelle Revis revealed among the first 40 names in NFL Network's Top 100 Players of 2013 series, Buc fans will find two more familiar names between #51-60 on Thursday ...

  • Bucs Have High Hopes for Steven Means

    anticipated. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound defensive end wasn't highly recruited coming out of high school and didn't receive an invitation to the NFL combine following a standout college at Buffalo either. So when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers called in the fifth round last month, Means understandably was thrilled and surprised. The Bucs believe they selected a player who has a chance to develop ...

  • Save money on your Memorial Day travel

    Interested in traveling to a particular destination for the Memorial Day weekend and saving money at the same time? There are ways in which you can save money and get great deals on hotels for your last minute travels.Deciding for trips on a budget can be hard but with these fewtips froman article by theThe ...

  • Conservative groups protest in Tampa

    Nearly 100 people took to the streets in Tampa today outside the IRS building on Boy Scout Blvd to warn everyone that the IRS and the government have gone too ...


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Movie Review

Witness [DVD]

Witness [DVD]

Witness is a story full of stark contrasts -- rural vs. city, pacifism vs. violence, simplicity vs. sophistication -- yet it would be wrong to say that at any point the film comes down strongly on one side or another. There is a tendency to see it as romanticizing the Amish community it d ... ...

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  • 10 questions for ABCs JuJu Chang

    We go beyond the questions that are news of the day. After all sometimes, we want know more about them as people. What's their favorite music? Biggest regret? And who do they look up ...

  • St. Petersburg on List of World’s Best Travel Spots

    WASHINGTON, May 21 (RIA Novosti) – Nestled on the Baltic Sea and often described as one of the most Western cities in Russia, St. Petersburg has a new place of honor as one of the top travel destinations in the world, according to the 2013 Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards released Tuesday by the popular online travel website TripAdvisor. "St. Petersburg is a fantastic ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 21

    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. ...

  • Port Authority kills Channelside deal

    TAMPA - In the end, it was a unanimous vote by the Tampa Port Authority that killed the latest proposal to renovate the struggling Channelside ...

  • JPMorgan board to shareholders were listening

    As the meeting opened, current CEO and chair Jamie Dimon said he was delighted to be in Tampa at JPMorgans Highland Oaks campus, which he called a key operating center for the company. Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase & Co. meeting today in Tampa defeated a proposal to require the company have an independent director as board chairman. The proposal, backed by the AFSCME ...

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