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• Dexter Young, 47, of St. Petersburg is accused of kidnapping his ...

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla - A 47-year-old St. Petersburg man is accused of kidnapping his girlfriend and then ripping her hair out.Dexter Young, of 711 36th Avenue South Street, is now charged with burglary with assault and battery and kidnapping. Police say Young showed up at a home on 12 Street South around 8 a.m. Sunday and gained entrance through an unlocked door.Once inside the home, police say Young broke a mirror with his fist and then went after his girlfriend who was hiding in a bathroom.Acc..

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• Hawkers brings Asian street fare to St. Petersburg

  

  A new restaurant has come to St. Petersburg’s Edge District: Hawkers Asian Street Fare. According to the restaurant’s website, “Hawkers” are street vendors in prominent parts of Asia who depend on locally grown ingredients to create dishes sold from mobile carts and stands. The restaurant brings that city-theme to Central Avenue and serves Asian street vendor-style favorites. Courtesy of Devin Rodriguez Hawkers Asian Street Fare offers a relaxed atmosphere and a selection of traditional soups, r..

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• Mother gives her side of story in St. Pete pond crash that killed 3 teens

  

  Natasha Winkler, mother of Laniya Miller, spoke at a news conference on Monday. CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Relatives of two of the teenage girls who recently died when a car drove into a St. Petersburg pond claim the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release about the incident without properly investigating what happened. Dominique Battle age 16, Ashaunti Butler age 15, and Laniya Miller age 15, were found dead inside a car that drove into a pond on the morning of Thu..

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• St. Pete Police tour Holocaust museum for sensitivity training

  

  St. Pete Police tour Holocaust museum for sensitivity training Officers get lessons in tolerance Eric Glasser, WTSP 4:40 PM. EST April 11, 2016 St. Petersburg police tour the Florida Holocaust Museum as part of sensitivity training to see how the German police were complicit in the atrocities. WTSP photo St. Petersburg Police hope to improve their community patrol efforts by tapping into a resource that's been in their own backyard for years: The Florida Ho..

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• Boy George and Culture Club returning, this time to St. Pete

  

  It was just last August when Boy George and his revived, reinvigorated Culture Club drew a crowd to Madeira Beach’s new R.O.C. Park bandshell with the band touring for the first time in 15 years with their original lineup. That tour drew rave reviews, including ours, and on Monday the band announced a global, 40-city tour that will bring Culture Club to St. Petersburg’s Mahaffey Theater on July 6. The last time Culture Club was in the area, the day was a soggy mess. But Culture Club put on a gre..

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• Red tide intrudes on Pinellas visitors' vacations

  

  Red tide intrudes on Pinellas visitors' vacations Isabel Mascarenas, WTSP 3:47 PM. EST April 11, 2016 Some beachgoers are saying they are feeling the effects of red tide with a scratchy throat. WTSP photo St. Petersburg Beach, Florida -- Red tide -- the same algae bloom we heard so much about last fall -- is still out in the Gulf of Mexico, say scientists with Mote MarineThe latest red tide report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows hig..

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• Why Quicken Loans' Dan Gilbert just doubled down on his ...

  

  A St. Petersburg company that provides 3-D product visualization for retailers and manufacturers has closed on a $10 million funding round. The latest round of ...

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• Some companies at job fair offering work-from-home positions

  

  Looking for a job or maybe a career change? Dozens of local businesses with open positions for everything from welders to cellphone sales took part in the Tampa Bay Job and Career Fair in St. Petersburg. This job fair offered a little bit of everything, but we know so many of you are interested in flexibility so we focused on two companies who claim to pay a solid wage and allow their employees to telecommute. We watched hundreds of job seekers including Craig Herring make introductions and h..

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• Panetta endorses Lynn

  

  Eric Lynn served in the Pentagon in the Obama administration and has highlighted that experience as an advantage in his race for Congress in Pinellas County's 13th Congressional District. On Monday, Lynn's former boss, Leon Panetta, endorsed him, saying Lynn has the "knowledge and courage" to uphold national security. "I know Eric well, and as a valued advisor to me during my time as Secretary of Defense, he proved that he has the resolve, experience and good judgment that it takes to be a stron..

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• St. Johns River-connected trails to get boost in funds

  

  The St. Johns River-to-Sea Loop on March 31 received a nod from the Florida Greenways and Trails Council that will clear a path for state funding toward the trail’s completion. A long-in-the-works project that started as a collection of individual trails, there are still many gaps in what could eventually be a 260-mile route connecting Brevard, Volusia, Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties. Council members ranked the loop first among seven regional trail system projects recommended for the Fl..

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