The Tampa Bay Rays Are Unlikely Contenders Again and other top stories.

• The Tampa Bay Rays Are Unlikely Contenders Again

  

  Even so, at 53-50, the Rays are poised for a pennant race as they chase their first playoff berth in four years. “These guys have managed to win a lot of games, and they’ve done it all different ways — with offense, pitching, defense,” said Chaim Bloom, the Rays’ senior vice president for baseball operations.“We’ve shot out to an early lead and hung on, and we’ve fallen behind and come back. These guys have a lot of grit, and when you watch them every day, they don’t quit. You see it every day..

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• Tampa man charged with murder in suspicious death of 19-year-old

  

  TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa man was arrested on Thursday for killing a 19-year-old man whose body was discovered in a vacant lot on Tuesday.Hillsborough County deputies arrested 20-year-old Angel Edwin Romero-Rivera at his home on Thursday without incident for the murder of Geovany Edwin Milla-Murillo. Detectives began conducting an investigation into what they referred to as a "suspicious death" on Tuesday. Around 1:30 p.m., HCSO detectives found Milla-Murillo's body in a vacant lot on the corner of..

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• Drones restrictions coming at Tampa Bay area airports

  

  Starting Sept. 1, Tampa International Airport officials will be enforcing new height restrictions for drones and other unmanned aircraft systems, according to a press release. All drones flying near the Tampa airport, Peter O. Knight Airport and the Tampa Executive and Plant City airports will be restricted from zero to 200 feet for recreational users. Droner operators and others can view restricted areas on an interactive map at: tampaairport.com/UAS. The public is invested to learn more abou..

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• Founder of Tampa home sharing platform questions Airbnb, NAACP ...

  

  TAMPA — A Tampa rival to Airbnb, which was launched because of discrimination complaints on the dominant home sharing platform, has concerns about the new partnership between Airbnb and NAACP announced this week. "Having more diverse people in the sharing economy is a good thing," said Rohan Gilkes co-founder of Tampa-based Innclusive. "But either way, the issues of discrimination of Airbnb has not been solved on the platform." "While one of the goals of the partnership is to attract more Af..

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• Police investigate homicide in Tampa

  

  Danielle Bregoli Peskowitz pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of grand theft, grand theft auto,marijuana possession, and filing a false rep…

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• Tampa man arrested in fatal motel shooting

  

  TAMPA — A Tampa man was arrested on a manslaughter charge Thursday in the death of Yasmine L. Tyson on Monday night. Tampa police detained Christopher Lee Carithers, 37, as he left a vehicle Thursday afternoon in front of a home in the 1500 block of 24th Avenue. Carithers was also booked on a second charge — felon in possession of a firearm — and his bail was set at $37,500. Tips from the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force led police to name Carithers a suspect in 37-year-old Tyson's shooting..

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• 5 things to know before Tampa Bay Comic Con this weekend

  

  Tampa Bay Comic Con returns to the Tampa Convention Center this weekend, expected to attract more than 55,000 like-minded nerds mingling with cosplayers, celebrities, artists and sellers of comic books and collectibles. The star power took a dramatic hit with the last-minute cancellation of actor Val Kilmer. But the lineup this year still includes actors Rose McGowan (replacing Kilmer), Kate Beckinsale, Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek's original Lt. Uhura) Khary Payton (Ezekial in The Walking Dead) ..

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• 2017 Tampa Bay Comic Con: What To Know Before You Go

  

  TAMPA, FL – Holy conventions, Batman! The 2017 Tampa Bay Comic Con returns for its seventh year this weekend. What started as a one-day event in a small building in Largo that drew 550 attendees, Tampa Bay Comic Con now fills the entire Tampa Convention Center and holds the attendance record for the facility. With more than 50,000 attendees, Tampa Bay Comic Con is one of the largest pop-culture conventions in the southeast. Here’s what area residents and visitors need to know before you go to th..

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• Forecast: Drier pattern ending in Tampa Bay as front brings building ...

  

  The drier, hot weather pattern across Tampa Bay will remain in place Friday before rain chances start to ramp up yet again through the weekend and into next week. 10News WTSP Feels-like temperatures around the Tampa Bay area Sunshine will stick around for a good part of the day Friday with only a small chance for a few isolated afternoon showers and storms, said 10Weather WTSP meteorologist Grant Gilmore. Most of the wet weather should be over the central part of the state, though, eas..

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• Storefronts for Sex: Tampa takes action to battle massage spa ...

  

  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – It’s time to start worrying if you’re in the Asian massage spa business in Tampa.  “This is our opportunity moving forward where we can actually do something meaningful and clean up Kennedy,” said Tampa City Council member Guido Maniscalco. Back in April, 8 on Your Side investigated ongoing prostitution in some of the dozen spas that line Kennedy Blvd. We found “massage therapists” wearing lingerie and reviewed five years of police reports on prostitution activity—al..

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