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• Tampa's newest bikini-clad street performer makes Nebraska ...

  Sometimes when snowbirds travel down to roost, they don’t always make it back up north. That’s how Tampa’s newest bikini-clad street performer ended up strutting his moves on Nebraska and Hillsborough avenues in Tampa. Charles Easter, aka Charles Holla, aka Beyonce, aka Rhi-Rhi, is an Internet sensation. His latest video (labeled “Meanwhile in Tampa) on the video streaming website World Star Hip Hop, has more than 7.5 million views — and that’s just one of his videos. His other clips, featurin..

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• Lawsuit: Tampa Strip Club Owes Dancers $3.7 Million

  

  Dancers and "door girls" have filed a class action lawsuit against a Tampa, Florida, strip club, claiming they're owed some $3.7 million in unpaid wages. The lawsuit, filed April 20 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, names JBM Management Inc., which does business as Thee Dollhouse, and its owner William Bullard as defendants. The Tampa Tribune ( http://bit.ly/1QEJcoO ) reports 46-year-old Vickie Jon Vellucci, 30-year-old Lindsay Michelle Brizzi and 24-year-old Alissa Lea Buckingham claim..

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• Tampa health care IT company expanding, adding 75 jobs

  

  ABILITY Network is expanding its operations in Tampa and plans to create 75 new jobs by 2017. The positions will be in sales, IT and administrative roles.

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• Tampa Bay Bucs draft former Gators star Vernon Hargreaves (w/video)

  

  TAMPA — The first time Vernon Hargreaves slipped on his NFL hat was at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on Thursday night. He was dressing for a homecoming game. Hargreaves, the Gators ball-hawking cornerback who played at Wharton High School, fulfilled a personal dream when he was selected No. 11 overall by the Bucs in the NFL draft. "I'm excited to be back home," Hargreaves said. "It's surreal. I don't know what to feel right now. I'm super excited and kind of ready to get started. "Of course..

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• Marco Rubio warming up to Donald Trump

  

  Note: We've revised the "let's not divide the party" section of this blog to provide more context. Marco Rubio appears to be warming up to Donald Trump, saying Friday his “performance has improved significantly." Rubio has also continued to withold an endorsement of Ted Cruz, even though he previously praised him as the conservative in the race. Last Sunday on Univision Rubio said it appeared Trump will lock down the nomination. "If he keeps winning delegates like he did the other night in New Y..

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• 4 children missing from Tampa area foster care facility

  

  Four girls placed pillows under their sheets to make it appear they were sleeping before apparently climbing out a window and scaling a 6-foot fence at a facility for foster children near Tampa, officials said Friday. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Col. Donna Lusczynski told reporters during a news conference outside A Kids Place that the girls - ages 13, 11, 10 and 4 - were last seen at 10 p.m. Thursday. They were reported missing after a bed check just before midnight.       Lusczynski said l..

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• MISSING: 4 girls run away from foster care facility

  

  MISSING: 4 girls run away from foster care facility BRANDON (FOX 13) - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says there is now a $5,000 reward for information that will help find four girls who apparently ran away from a foster care facility in Brandon overnight.Deputies say the girls -- ages 4, 10, 11 and 13 -- went missing from A Kid's Place on Lithia Pincecrest Road some time between 10 p.m. Thursday and midnight.A staff member reportedly noticed they were gone during a bed count...

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• When Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry moves, will its top ...

  

  TAMPA — The future of the Museum of Science and Industry is decided: It's moving downtown. The future of its leader is less certain. Molly Demeulenaere was named President and CEO of MOSI in June 2015 after 10 months serving as interim executive. Almost immediately, her long-term prospects to keep the job were deflated by the museum's most important benefactor, Hillsborough County. County Administrator Mike Merrill said in July that Demeulenaere was "good enough to keep the lights on" but not to..

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