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• The Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club to get ...

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — The Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club is about to get a new owner. Maryland-based FelCor Lodging Trust, the owner of the historic Vinoy resort in downtown St. Petersburg, is being acquired by RLJ Lodging Trust, the publicly traded real estate investment trust owned by BET founder Robert Johnson. FelCor purchased the Vinoy in 2007, and recently announced a three-year plan to make $50 million in upgrades to the property. These include building a new parking str..

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• GR8 Inspiration: Girls set to rock in St. Pete

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Around the globe, people will be singing, jamming, and drumming as Girl’s Rock camps everywhere kick off on Monday. For the second year in the row, the international movement is coming to St. Petersburg. “To create a band to create something organic you have to work together to reach that. A band is a community, it might be a small one or it might be a really big one, but none-the-less it’s a community in and of itself, so we work together to show them how to comm..

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• StayBridge Suites in St. Petersburg sells for $20.5 million

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — The StayBridge Suites hotel in St. Petersburg was purchased by Rhode Island-based Procaccianti Companies for $20.5 million, according to Hunter Hotel Advisors, the firm which brokered the deal. The 119-room StayBridge Suites was built in 2014 and will be operated by TPG Hotels & Resorts, Procaccianti's hospitality management company. TPG manages six other hotels in the state, mostly in South Florida, including the Westin Fort Lauderdale. The StayBridge Suites was formerly bra..

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• Woman arrested for allegedly calling 911 to get ride to St. Pete

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – A woman was arrested Monday for calling 911 to allegedly try and get a ride to St. Petersburg. According to an arrest affidavit, Elizabeth Paniello, 31, of Clearwater, went to the Bayside Medical Clinic and asked the staff if they could send her to St. Anthony’s Hospital. When staff told her she could be treated there, Paniello used the phone at the clinic to call 911 and walked to Safe Harbor. Paniello told paramedics there that she wanted them to take her t..

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• New Building Doubles Size Of St. Petersburg Free Clinic

  

  The St. Petersburg Free Clinic’s health center has a new home and it’s twice as big. The clinic outgrew its space in downtown St. Petersburg and was experiencing a backlog of appointments and longer wait times.The new health center has more exam rooms, more nursing stations and allows the clinic -- that served about 5,000 people last year -- to bring in a dermatologist, general surgeon and neurologist. “That takes away draining the system at the local hospitals where if it’s something relatively..

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• 5 pit bulls who attacked in St. Pete could be euthanized

  

  LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) – Will they live or will they be euthanized? On Wednesday, Pinellas County Animal Services will answer that question after five dogs viciously attacked two women in South St. Petersburg on July 3rd. Since the attack, the pit bulls have been under a mandatory 10-day quarantine period as officers conducted a dangerous dog investigation. The results of that investigation will be released Wednesday and the outcome will determine the dogs’ fates. It was chaos in the 2100 bl..

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• Ichicoro Ramen to open a sister restaurant in downtown St. Pete's ...

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — Two years ago, Ichicoro wowed New York City with its Tampa-style ramen, noodles overflowing with Florida freshness and ingredients. Even Gwyneth Paltrow showed up to the pop-up to slurp noodles. Later that year, Ichicoro Ramen opened in Seminole Heights and the tiny restaurant contained the most sought-after seats of the year. And this autumn, Ichicoro Ane comes to St. Petersburg. Ane is "older sister" in Japanese, and despite the fact that this big sib will be younger, it will ..

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• After Monday mayhem, will St. Pete's candidates be heard at all? (w ...

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — What began as an exercise in civil society Monday evening ended in mayhem. Now organizers are wondering whether they can ensure city candidates will be heard by voters at future forums — and not shouted down by unruly protestors. A candidate forum at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel dissolved into a shoving match between supporters of the International People's Democratic Uhuru movement and other attendees. Officers had to clear out the hotel ballroom, cutting short the ..

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• Craft beer in St. Pete is the latest in the city's pier marketing plan

  

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• Injection well to help relieve flooding in St. Pete

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Crews have finished installing one of six injection wells to help relieve flooding around the City of St. Petersburg. City leaders unveiled the well, along with a new filtration system, at the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility on Tuesday. It will allow for more capacity to treat and store water. A total of six injection wells are planned to go around the city. Two more are expected to be up and running by mid-August. “Back in May, this plant and our syste..

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