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State Rep. Peter Nehr has drawn four Republican rivals in District 48....
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If you purchased a Fantasy 5 lottery ticket in Clearwater, you may want to check the numbers....
A Tampa man who barricaded himself inside a home on Floribraska Avenue has surrendered peacefully, police said....
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Environmental programs hang in the balance as lawmakers move toward passing a new state budget...
Thomas Moak Jr. was out of work. He lived with his elderly parents and sister after moving to Sarasota about a year ago....
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A new ethics investigation of the House Financial Services Committee chairman's investment activities during the events leading up to and surrounding Congress' $700 billion bailout of Wall Street sets back lawmakers' election-year efforts to rebound ...
VATICAN CITY | Money laundering at the Vatican bank. Corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts. Even a purported plot to kill Pope Benedict XVI....
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Writing is a passion for Linda Cooper, this week on Florida Stories she talks to her daughter Sheena Ivy about how coming home sparked painful memories of her childhood that also allowed her to let it out on paper...
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The Obama administration generated intense opposition with a ruling that says employers must fully cover birth control in workers' health plans. There's an exception for churches that oppose contraception but no exception for large institutions like ...
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Supporters who split with the White House over the original health care initiative are coming back to the fold now that the president has changed strategy. But some Catholics and Capitol Hill Republicans are still fuming....
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The leaders of the two parties backing Greece's coalition government made dramatic appeals to their deputies Saturday to back legislation that calls for harsh new austerity measures — essential if Greece is to get a new bailout deal worth $171.6...
Britons are in an uproar over a judge's decision to release a Muslim preacher suspected of al-Qaida links. The British government wanted to deport him to Jordan, where he's been convicted on terrorism charges, but European courts won't allow that bec...
France has opened a new museum honoring one of the most multi-talented, controversial and too-often-forgotten artists of the last century: Jean Cocteau. He was a poet, playwright, sculptor, painter and filmmaker. Frank Browning reports that it's all ...





