Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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  • Police: St. Petersburg man, 50, faces charges of sexual assault on ...

    Police: St. Petersburg man, 50, faces charges of sexual assault on ...
    ST. PETERSBURG — A 50-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning after police said he was found sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl. According to St. Petersburg police, a woman found her boyfriend, Bernard Jones of 4105 18th Ave. S, sexually assaulting her 3-year-old daughter at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The woman told the police she walked in and saw Jones, then called her teenage son into the room. Then mother and wrestled Jones to the floor, police said. Jones bit the woman's son and..
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  • Boys soccer: Shorecrest beats St. Petersburg Catholic on penalty kicks

    ST. PETERSBURG — As Drew Zolper prepared to take Shorecrest's fifth, and potential winning, penalty kick against St. Petersburg Catholic, he knew he had to do something different. Zolper already made a penalty kick in regulation, which was the Chargers' only goal. He figured doing the same thing in overtime wasn't going to work. "When I walked up to the first one I looked to the right and I already knew I was going to the left," Zolper said. "When I did the second one I looked right and went r..
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  • Stage planner: St. Pete Opera opens, Katt Williams comes to Tampa ...

    Stage planner: St. Pete Opera opens, Katt Williams comes to Tampa ...
      OF NOTE: ST. PETE OPERA OPENS   The Abduction from the Seraglio, regarded by the St. Petersburg Opera as an under-appreciated gem, is the opening production for the company this weekend. Mozart debuted the opera in 1782 in Vienna as Die Entführung aus dem Serail, earning him the emperor's now infamous advice, as depicted in the movie, Amadeus: "There are simply too many notes. ‌ Cut a few and it will be perfect." The piece, which centers on two men rescuing their girlfriends from a harem, ha..
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  • Trustee for defunct St. Pete health insurer sues Florida GOP

    Trustee for defunct St. Pete health insurer sues Florida GOP
    The trustee for a defunct health insurer in St. Petersburg has gone to court to recover $105,000 in political contributions from the insurer to the Republican Party ...
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  • Frida Kahlo exhibition opens in Russian museum

    Frida Kahlo exhibition opens in Russian museum
    Russia's first major exhibition dedicated to Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo has opened in a St. Petersburg museum.The exhibition that opened Tuesday in the Faberge Museum features three dozen works by Kahlo, famous for her poignant self-portraits.A visitor stylised as Frida Kahlo poses for photo next to a Frida's Kahlo self-portrait at the Frida Kahlo exhibition in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. A retrospective exhibition of the renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo started ..
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  • Boys basketball | Bradenton Christian rolls over Canterbury in ...

    Boys basketball | Bradenton Christian rolls over Canterbury in ...
    BRADENTON -- Three practices filled the four days between Bradenton Christian's loss to St. Petersburg Shorecrest Prep to end the regular season and the start of the district basketball playoffs Tuesday in Bradenton."(The loss) was a sour taste," head coach Scott Townsend said. "Everyone was in a bad mood, but they worked extremely hard and kind of got refocused."St. Petersburg Canterbury had the misfortune of being on the receiving end of that renewed focus.Bradenton Christian used its full-co..
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  • Pinellas 'Outstanding Educator' keeps a packed schedule

    Pinellas 'Outstanding Educator' keeps a packed schedule
    CLEARWATER — Sarah Dobes arrives at East Lake Middle School Academy of Engineering two hours before the bell rings every morning, despite a 33-mile commute from her home in St. Petersburg. "You gotta wake up every day excited about what you do," Dobes said. For a day at least, she can get those two hours of sleep this morning, as she'll arrive at the school in a stretch limo as Pinellas County's 2016 Outstanding Educator of the Year. Then it's back to work. Her schedule is packed with school com..
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  • Events: The Rev. Kenny Irby to discuss Coates' 'Between the World ...

    Events: The Rev. Kenny Irby to discuss Coates' 'Between the World ...
    Book Talk Cathedral Church of St. Peter's book talk series presents the Rev. Kenny Irby of Bethel AME Church discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award, at noon Tuesday at the cathedral, 140 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Free; lunch available, $5. Poynter Institute senior scholar Roy Peter Clark (The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing) will discuss and sign his book at 10 a.m. Saturd..
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  • Dining planner: Head into Fat Tuesday with these Tampa Bay Cajun ...

    Dining planner: Head into Fat Tuesday with these Tampa Bay Cajun ...
    Let the good times roll: Mardi Gras To mark the last party before Lent, there's a big parade and street party on Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, in Dunedin's Pioneer Park at Main Street and Douglas Avenue starting at 4 p.m. And the Mardi Gras concert series at Universal Orlando gets under way Saturday with a concert by country hottie Hunter Hayes plus Big Easy bands and a parade. But who are we kidding? What we really love about Mardi Gras is the food. The sweet fried beignets that make..
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  • Coachman Road project in Clearwater to last until May

    I have been watching your column to see if you published anything about what is going on with State Road 590, NE Coachman Road, west of U.S. 19 in Clearwater. Can you find out what they are doing, when it will be finished? David White The construction project, which runs along State Road 590/NE Coachman from Drew Street to Audrey Drive, began in October and is scheduled to be completed in May. There's a lot going on with this project, to include traffic signal improvements, enhanced lighting, ne..
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New bus routes, stops in downtown St. Petersburg .St. Pete wage dispute office gets employers to pay .
Bradenton set to welcome Melanie Bevan as new police chief, as ... .Boys soccer: St. Petersburg Catholic 3, Carrollwood Day 0 .

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