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ICS Qual. UPDATE - 4 Of The Top 8 Are Transition Players

UPDATE:**Graham Rahal became the youngest IndyCar Series pole winner at 20 years, 90 days when the reigning race champion took the PEAK Pole Award presented by AutoZone with a quick lap of 1 minute, 02.4110...

Florida Gators are merciless against South Carolina Gamecocks

Florida fans are notoriously tardy to football games. Saturdays in the fall are like parties in this town, and the tailgaters file in fashionably late. Like the rain falling from lazy skies, They trickled into Ben...

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Check out these billboards in Pinellas County, Florida.  They catch your attention like the "Life is Short, Have an Affair" billboards but in a GOOD WAY...

Finnish Children Eat Alone,Travel Alone & Wake Up Alone Say Child Welfare Ref...

The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (MLL) have today drawn attention to the ever-increasing isolation of the Finnish child.   "Parents seem to neglect their children more and more. Even very small...

Televangelist under investigation for Obama comments

With all the investigation going on over tv televangelist’s now Florida-based televangelist Bill Keller says he’s being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for getting involved in politics. But now...

The Swamp: McCain's allies: Oil fears and a Castro tale

To be or not to be? That is the question.   " Sometimes, supporters say the darnedest things. Consider the conference call that Sen. John McCain's campaign organized today, corralling three Republican or supportive mayors around Florida to counterbalance coverage of...

Florida leads the nation

" If tourism is one of the pillars upon which Florida’s economy rests and if tourism is a major source of employment the good news is that preliminary estimates of visitors to Florida show an estimated 23.8 million people visited the Sunshine State in the first quarter...

Breaking News Florida Gov. Crist to Endorse McCain

"  Florida Gov. Charlie Crist plans to endorse John McCain for the GOP presidential nomination. Crist is expected to back the Arizona senator at a dinner in St. Petersburg, Fla., Saturday evening ahead of the state’s competitive primary Tuesday, where McCain and...

EROTIC ART EXPOSED IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA

by WILLIAM ROTHSTEIN  Even before you walked through the door, there were clues that this would not be your grandmother's art exhibit. Two young men, clad in nothing but thin cotton briefs, lounged...

Slayings inflame Florida's clash with homeless population

The increasing tension between the homeless and officials--and, it would seem, the criminal element--in Miami and other Florida communities worsens with the slayings of two of St. Petersburg's homeless. "ST....

Training Programs Spark Diversity - Tampa Fire Rescue

" December 15, 2006 Florida - She's about a half-foot shorter and a few years older than fellow trainees in the fire academy, but Kim Edmonds is determined to shine. "I gotta work extra, extra hard," Edmonds, 32, of St. Petersburg, said Wednesday. A single mother of a...

In Russia, A Secretive Force Widens

All three men had something important in common beyond the timing of their promotions: backgrounds as KGB officers and experience working directly with President Vladimir Putin when he was a KGB operative himself...

As 'goblins' knock, evangelicals answer the door (The Christian Science ...

" By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Mon Oct 30, 4:00 AM ET Bruce Watters used to simply hand out candy on Halloween, just like his neighbors in St. Petersburg, Fla., until he decided the holiday's ghoulishness really didn't jibe with his...

N.C. STATE VS. FLORIDA STATE: Amato digs in against critics (The Charlotte Ob...

" N.C. State coach says he's not on hot seat BRIAN LANDMAN St. Petersburg Times N.C. State coach Chuck Amato, the former longtime Florida State assistant, didn't react as you might expect to what must have been the umpteenth question about his job performance. Have you and...

Fire Heavily Damages 19th Century Russian Cathedral

"A fire raged through a 19th century cathedral today, collapsing the main cupola atop the stately church in Russia's former Imperial capital and sending clerics scurrying to save treasured icons. The fire erupted in the early evening and burned through scaffolding outside the...

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