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• Naked, shouting man arrested in St

  

  ST. PETERSBURG - A 22-year-old man was arrested for disorderly conduct after police were called and discovered him naked and yelling in his driveway.

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• Is St

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa has one, so do Orlando and Miami Beach.So how does the city with a 7-mile stretch of waterfront and a long, sizzling-hot commercial corridor along Central Avenue not have a bike share program?All the millennial meccas have one, and that's a new source of revenue that St. Petersburg officials would love.The city just has to decide if it wants to spend the money.Last month, Mayor Rick Kriseman urged council members to steer $1 million in BP settlement funds to a bike share.But they balked and that source of funding is now in doubt.Despite not having a clear cash pot, a city selection committee on Friday unanimously ranked CycleHop, which operates the Tampa bike share, as..

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• Rays keep options open heading into GM meetings

  

  Just because the Rays made an unexpectedly early deal to fill two holes in acquiring SSBrad Millerand DH/1B/OFLogan Morrisondoesn't mean they won't have a lot more to talk about this offseason.Team execs head to Boca Raton for this week's GM meetings with their focus narrowed but their options wide open."Our desire to improve the team and the organization is constant, and we still have some areas to address," baseball operations presidentMatt Silvermansaid. "That's where our depth will come in handy. It's going to be a busy offseason for sure, and in February we'll look back and see how much actual activity there was."Given that the Rays typically don't venture into free agency until later —..

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• Report: Tampa Police writes more tickets than other agencies

  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An analysis by The Tampa Bay times showed that Tampa police wrote more tickets last year than sheriff's offices in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties combined and more per capita than cops in Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando, the state's four other largest cities.And no other law enforcement agency in the state arrests more people than the Tampa Police Department.The paper reported (http://bit.ly/20AEOjq) that each arrest, each ticket, feeds into a formula that calculates an officer's "productivity ratio" — number of hours worked divided by the number of tickets and arrests.The more officers do, the better they score.But the formula doesn't discr..

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• 2015 college football bowl projections

  Dec. 19Celebration:MEAC champion vs. SWAC champion, Atlanta, noon, Ch. 28Cure:American vs. Sun Belt, Orlando, Noon, CBSSN — Tulsa vs. La.-LafayetteNew Mexico:CUSA vs. MWC, Albuquerque, 2 p.m., ESPN — Rice vs. New MexicoLas Vegas:MWC/BYU vs. Pac-12, Las Vegas, 3:30 p.m., Ch. 28 — San Diego State vs. Washington StateCamellia:MAC vs. Sun Belt, Montgomery, Ala., 5:30 p.m., ESPN — Central Michigan vs. Appalachian StateNew Orleans:Sun Belt vs. C-USA, New Orleans, 9 p.m., ESPN — Southern Miss vs. Arkansas StateDec. 21Miami Beach:American vs. C-USA, Miami, 2:30 p.m.. ESPN — Temple vs. MarshallDec. 22Potato:MAC vs. Mountain West, Boise, Idaho, 3:30 p.m., ESPN — Northern Illinois vs. Utah StateBoca Ra..

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• Glass not a pane to fast-growing Fort Myers business

  

  Don Ruane, Special to The News-Press11:08 p.m. EST November 7, 2015Bill Daubmann, senior vice president of My Shower Door(Photo: Don Ruane/Special to The News-Press)If you think glass is just a pane, Bill Daubmann, senior vice president of My Shower Door, will shatter that impression.Last month he set off for the national glass show in Atlanta, where the industry shows off everything about glass from machines that manufacture it to applying four color images to glass.“Every company that has anything to do with glass is there,” Daubmann said. “I’m looking to make contacts for our affiliates.My Shower Door is a frameless shower door company based in Fort Myers. Instead of using metal frames, t..

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• Shell Key dilemma: What to do about the closed-in pass

  SHELL KEY, Fla. (AP) — Peter Clark remembers coming to this barrier island about a year ago and noticing the water that once rushed along its northeastern edge had trickled to a thin stream."It was a real shock to see the entire pass had closed up," said Clark, president of Tampa Bay Watch environmental group.Once wide enough for large boats to navigate, the pass at the southern end of Pinellas County has been closing gradually during the past few years as sand from just north of it has filled in the channel that once was several hundred feet across, Clark said.The sand now has created a land bridge that connects the key to Tierra Verde, blocking essential water flow to seagrasses and m..

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• Noise in last second of Russian plane’s cockpit recording | WINK NEWS

  

  EPA / civil aviation ministry (Egypt) / MGNSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt(AP) — A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt’s Sinai, killing all 224 people onboard, the head of the Egyptian investigation team said Saturday.Ayman el-Muqadem told a news conference in Cairo that an analysis of the noise was underway to identify its nature. He said the way the debris was scattered over a wide area indicated the Airbus A321-200 broke up mid-air, but initial observations don’t shed light on what caused it.U.S. and British officials have cited intelligence reports as indicating that the Russian flight from the Sinai resort town ..

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• Sunday morning quarterback

  

  Team of the WeekEast Lake:It's hard to imagine the Eagles could have had a better week. On Monday, East Lake had to play in a three-team tiebreaker with St. Petersburg and Pinellas Park. The Eagles got past the Green Devils 15-8 in the first 12-minute quarter. Then came a 7-3 win over the Patriots to secure a runnerup playoff spot in Class 7A-10 and a date with Plant City in Friday's opening round.Four days later, East Lake had to play at rival Clearwater. The Eagles had won 12 straight in the series, but Clearwater (8-2) was better than it has been in years. All East Lake did was blow away the Tornadoes 45-21. Xavier Jackson ran for 192 yards and four touchdowns. Robert Goldinak threw a tou..

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• Robert Helmick: Bill seeks better data, better fishery

  Over the years, I, like many of you, have become frustrated with the state of fisheries management in our region. What’s especially frustrating is the lack of investment in more timely and accurate ways to collect the information we need to ensure that we keep fish populations and coastal businesses thriving. Millions of people in this area rely directly or indirectly on our fishery resources to support our families. Each management decision made by federal and state resource managers affects us financially. As it stands, sometimes those decisions must be made without sufficient, quality information. ..

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