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• Motorcyclist in critical condition after St

  7:37 a.m. EST November 15, 2015ambulance graphic(Photo: WTSP)ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- St. Petersburg Police was working a serious injury crash on Saturday evening, that left a man in critical condition.A Nissan Altima, being driven by 59-year-old John Thomas Pearce, was traveling westbound on 54th Avenue North in the median lane. A Kawasaki motorcycle, being driven by 22-year-old Zachary Buehler, was traveling eastbound on 54th Avenue North in the median lane.Pearce slowed to make a left hand tur..

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• Threat to St

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - As the world continues to pray for Paris in the wake of Friday's terror attacks, there are heightened security measures and new threats here at home.  A voicemail left at a Tampa Bay area mosque early Saturday morning is now being investigated by local and federal authorities.Police were on patrol outside the Islamic Center of St. Petersburg Saturday after the church got a very violent threat."Personally I have a militia that's going to come down to your Islamic Society in..

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• Winter is coming, and so is an El Nino pattern in Florida

  

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Floridians should brace themselves for a wet and wild winter, all thanks toEl Nino.The weather pattern happens every few years when the Pacific Ocean warms up around the equator. This year's is one of the strongest El Ninos on record.Craig Fugate, a former Floridian who once headed the state's emergency management operations and who is now the Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator, said the last time Florida saw such a strong El Nino, dozens people died fr..

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• This Sunday in live music: Julian Lage Trio, The Faceless, Turkuaz...

  

  (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) ... likely be hawking copies of new Dream Warriors record; sets by a couple of noisy high-quality St. Pete acts included, too.

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• Pedestrian struck, seriously injured on Seminole Blvd

  

  SEMINOLE --A pedestrian was struck by a pickup truck and seriously injured in Seminole on Saturday evening, authorities said.Chester Howard Buhl 51, of Clearwater was crossing 54th Avenue N. at Seminole Boulevard inside the crosswalk, but against the "Don't Walk" pedestrian signal, around 6:50 p.m., the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.He was truck by a a 2013 Dodge pickup truck driven by Danielle Zsido, 24.Investigators say Zsido was apparently driving the speed limit when she saw Buhl at..

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• Increase in prescription drug use pushing up health costs | Tampa Bay Times

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — The pills on Sherry Fox's nightstand are the most important part of her evening routine.There's metformin to help control her blood sugar and Lyrica for the pain brought on by fibromyalgia. A drug known as Singulair makes it easier for her to breathe.The medications make a difference, the 60-year-old retiree said outside of her St. Petersburg apartment last week."I feel good," she said. "I wouldn't be feeling good without them."New research suggests her situation is becoming the..

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• Paying off your mortgage: Good idea or not?

  

  Robert Powell, Special for USA TODAY7:56 p.m. EST November 14, 2015Being debt-free in retirement certainly has its advantages.(Photo: Brian Brown, Getty Images/iStockphoto)(USA TODAY) --Q: I'm in my late 50s. My highest priority goal for retirement is to own my home, with no mortgage payment. Is that a valid, fiscally sound objective? — Bill Slayton, Centreville, Va.A: Being debt-free in retirement has its advantages. "I've never met anyone who complained about not having a mortgage payment," sa..

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• Andrew Bowen: Study could fuel commuter anger to favor Hillsborough transportation initiative | TBO

  After analyzing statistics from the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard issued by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and traffic data authority INRIX, I found myself wondering why Tampa Bay area commuters don’t stop their cars, get out on the side of the road and scream en masse, like Peter Finch in the 1976 film “Network,” “We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!” Some elected and appointed leaders, academics, self-promoting activists, eng..

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• Florida state parks being reviewed for places to allow hunting - Orlando Sentinel

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Every Florida state park is now being considered as a potential killing field.A checklist that park planners use in reviewing what can be allowed in Florida's park system now calls for adding hunting as a possible activity.Initially the "hunting" category was only for the larger parks, according to former Department of Environmental Protection park planner Enid Ehrbar. But three weeks ago, she said, the planners were told to apply it to each of the state's 161 parks.That..

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• Paris attacks signal move toward more global IS strategy | www

  

  As the deadly attacks in Paris made horrifically clear, the Islamic State group is determined to establish itself as the dominant jihadist movement capable of operating far beyond the limits of its self-declared "caliphate."Doing so achieves numerous aims for the group, not least of which could be winning it clout to attract even more recruits. Others may include sharpening divisions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe — and forcing the West into a difficult choice of either backing off or..

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