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• Tampa family's record-breaking gift fuels capital campaign at Jesuit ...

  Three members of a family that owns a Tampa-based chain of gas stations and convenience stores are giving $3 million to Jesuit High School. The gift from Joe ...

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• Phillies beat University of Tampa, 8-3, in an exhibition game

  

  CLEARWATER, Fla. - The Phillies, at the very least, will go undefeated against college teams in 2016. There was no embarrassment at Bright House Field like last spring, as the Phillies beat the University of Tampa, 8-3, in Sunday's first exhibition game.  Both Jeremy Hellickson and Aaron Nola breezed through nine-pitch innings. Edward Mujica, a veteran reliever attempting to make the Phillies bullpen, was hit around for three runs in the third inning.The rest of the pitchers were unblemished. La..

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• USF student crowned new Miss Tampa

  

  TBO.com staff Published: February 27, 2016 Updated: February 28, 2016 at 09:13 AM There’s a new queen in Tampa. Morgan Boykin, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, was named Miss Tampa at Saturday’s scholarship pageant at Busch Gardens. Boykin was crowned by Miss Tampa 2015 Sidney Resmondo from a field of 19 contestants. The Miss Tampa Scholarship Pageant began in 1946. Miss Tampa becomes a contestant in the Miss Florida Scholarship Pageant in the summer. Miss Florida compe..

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• Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins game preview

  

  TV: NBC Sports Time: 6:30 p.m. Steven Stamkos' scoring binge has been a significant part of Tampa Bay's five consecutive wins, but the Lightning are also showcasing an improved defense. The Lightning will next try to slow down the league's most-prolific scoring team of late, the Boston Bruins, on Sunday night while registering their first road win streak over their Atlantic Division rivals. Stamkos is two shy of the longest goal-scoring streak of his career - a seven-game run in 2009-10 -..

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• Lights on Tampa will be back — just not soon

  

  TAMPA — If you’re waiting for more of the bright fun that washes over downtown during the weekend “Lights On Tampa” event, you’ll have to wait a little longer. The event last lit up the area around Curtis Hixon Park one year ago this month, but its frequency has always been fleeting. The next Lights On Tampa is scheduled for some time in 2017, or possibly later. The loosely biennial event that has generated “oohs” and “aahs” since 2006 and helped shape Tampa’s national profile during a Super Bo..

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• Faith in Action: Tampa General Hospital love story

  

  Faith in Action: Tampa General Hospital love story TAMPA (FOX13) - Debbie and Bill Ismer's love story begins bedside at Tampa General Hospital."I was a patient. I came to Tampa General for an evaluation for a heart transplant," Bill said.Bill had just suffered a massive heart attack. He was given 48 hours to live. But something, or rather someone, kept him hanging on for nearly a year while waiting for a new heart. His nurse."She was very attractive and she had time for me," he smiled.A..

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If Apple loses, your home could be the next thing that's unlocked .	Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22 .
Slide the City's giant, urban water slide coming to Tampa this spring .	Victims of east Tampa shooting fled the scene, police say .