Brayden Point makes Lightning roster and other top stories.

• Brayden Point makes Lightning roster

  

  The Lightning set its final roster for Thursday's opener, and there are a few twists. Forward prospect Brayden Point, 20, made the team, even with star Nikita Kucherov signing a three-year deal Tuesday. Point, entering his first pro season, has been impressive in training camp, with three preseason goals, with captain Steven Stamkos saying he deserves to be in the NHL. "We felt like he's earned the right for us to give him a look right off the bat," GM Steve Yzerman said. The Lightning also reas..

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• Union, school district team up to nurture first-year Pinellas teachers

  

  ST. PETERSBURG — Every babble and desk squeak was a teachable moment for Kali Davis and the restless fourth-graders before her. "If you can hear me, clap once," she commanded. "Tootsie roll, lollipop, we've-been-talking-now-let's-stop!" Before long, Davis resorted to the classic "I'll wait" as she tried to teach a language arts lesson on animals native to Florida. She coaxed the kids to sound out "opossum" because it's funny and starts with an "O." They "blew" the word "tail" in their hands with..

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• Amy Scherzer's Diary: Weekly Wrap-Up of the Tampa Social Scene

  

  USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Hailing author Elaine Shimberg and political trailblazer Betty Castor for leading “boldly, authentically and fearlessly,” USF president Judy Genshaft opened the USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy Fall Symposium Luncheon on Oct. 6 at the Hilton Tampa Downtown. Community leader and philanthropist Shimberg has written 26 books on medical and family topics. Castor’s firsts include female Hillsborough County Commissioner, Florida senate president pro tempor..

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• From Amy Schumer to 'SNL' to 'The Simpsons,' Tampa is America's ...

  

  Last week, comedian Kyle Kinane called St. Petersburg’s America’s “new hipster metropolis” in an interview on the podcast Sklarbro Country. “I’m almost upset I gave away this real estate tip,” he added. Not us, Kyle. Tampa Bay has been a punch line for so long, it’s nice to hear a comic say something nice about this region for a change. When Amy Schumer needled Tampa in her recent book The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (“I know for a fact that no one who lives there has ever read a book”) it ..

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• Hospital industry says it, too, is slammed by drug costs

  

  WASHINGTON — Hospitals, too, are getting slammed by sharp price increases in prescription drugs, and the industry is urging the next president and Congress to take up the issue. Consumer groups and insurers were already complaining loudly about drug costs. Now hospitals are turning up the volume, as well, leaving the pharmaceutical industry more politically isolated. A study released Tuesday by the two biggest hospital lobbying groups found that, overall, hospitals' average annual inpatient ..

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• Popular plantain chips began in Tampa couple's kitchen

  

  Popular plantain chips began in Tampa couple's kitchen TAMPA (FOX 13) - Bag after bag of Chifles Plantain Chips make their way down an assembly line at a 20,000 square foot facility in Tampa, and then to grocery stores across the country.Founder Peggy Argudo remembers when it was just her, her Ecuadorian husband, Segundo and a pressure cooker in their Tampa kitchen back in 1963."We started, just the two of us," said Argudo. "We did the buying, the cooking, we did everything."The Argudos..

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