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• Tampa City Council rejects new fee to pay for large drainage projects | Tampa Bay Times

  

  TAMPA — A divided City Council on Thursday killed Mayor Bob Buckhorn's proposal to create a new stormwater improvement fee to pay for $251 million in projects to expand the capacity of the city's under-performing drainage system.Council members Frank Reddick, Charlie Miranda, Yvonne Yolie Capin and Guido Maniscalco voted against the fee after a lengthy public hearing at which some South Tampa neighborhood leaders supported the idea, but representatives of real estate agents, car lots and Ybor Ci..

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• Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week 11 Stock Report | Bleacher Report

  

  Chris O'Meara/Associated PressSince being given a starting job two weeks ago, Sterling Moore has rewarded head coach Lovie Smith with a pair of inspired performances that have helped elevate the play of the entire defense.Last week's performance was Moore's best yet, as he shut downDez Bryantand held him to 45 yards on five receptions. Through his two starts, Moore has posted seven tackles, three pass breakups, one interception and one forced fumble.Moore's play over the past two games has allow..

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• 5 things for Eagles to worry about vs

  PHILADELPHIA— When you blow a 13-point lead at home to a below average Miami Dolphins team, you should be worried about any opponent, especially the next one.For theEaglesthat would be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who under head coach Lovie Smith, in his second year with the Bucs, are playing much better football than anyone would have expected.Las Vegas opened the Eagles as a surprisingly high seven-point favorite for the game between two teams with identical 4-5 records and not much of a differ..

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• New York Rangers at Tampa Bay Lightning game preview | FOX Sports

  

  TV: FOX Sports SunTime:Pregame coverage begins at 7 p.m.TheNew York Rangershave hardly been dominant for the first five-plus weeks. Perhaps that makes their current situation all the more impressive.The Rangers can match the team record with a 10th consecutive win Thursday night when they visit offensively challengedTampa Bay, with the teams meeting for the first time since theLightning'svictory in the Eastern Conference finals.New York (14-2-2) has struggled at times this season against opponen..

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• Tampa diners eating oodles of noodles at new ramen restaurants | TBO

  

  Not long after Dosunco opened for business on Kennedy Boulevard, the ramen shop experienced a power failure. Half the lights were out, and the air conditioner stopped working. Co-owner Yuichiro Fukui, 36, says he was going to close for the night, but when he tried to explain the situation to the customers who kept arriving, something happened. “They said no, we don’t care. Let us eat,” Fukui says. “It was hell. Everybody sweating so much.” Jus..

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• Tampa-area forecast: Cloudy, muggy day ahead of slow-moving front | TBO

  

  The National Weather Service says change is in the air, but the Tampa area won’t get it until early Thanksgiving week. Until then, expect a few more mild, muggy days. Today, expect clouds, heat and humidity ahead of a slow-moving cold front that won’t get through Central Florida until early Friday. The weather service calls for highs in the low 80s with a 50 to 60 percent chance of rain. Some thunderstorms are possible. With the clouds, the area won’t ..

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• Transforming Tampa Bay: Hey, we're walkin' here! | Political Animal | Creative Loafing Tampa

  

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• Lack of drone regulations concern Tampa attorney | WFLA

  

  Related CoverageTAMPA, FL (WFLA) – Dale Swope can’t help but smile as he launches his drone from the roof of his Ybor City office.  The Tampa attorney has owned it for several years now and says it can do incredible things.  “You can use them for all kinds of things.  They’re not just fun to fly in the same way a radio controlled plane is, you know you mount cameras on them and the photography you can get from a drone are photographs you can’t get from anywhere else,”  said Swope.  “I use my dro..

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• Senator wants probe into Tampa agency’s payments for positive PR | TBO

  

  TAMPA — An Iowa senator is asking the federal government to investigate the Tampa Housing Authority for spending federal tax dollars to get positive press in a local online magazine. In a letter to the secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa was critical of the agency for contracting with 83 Degrees to publish stories that promote sustainable housing and the agency. He also questioned the agency’s $5,000 per month contract with local public relati..

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• Jury finds Tampa man guilty of Lakeland woman's killing | TheLedger

  

  Benjamin Smiley was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday. SCOTT WHEELER/THE LEDGER BARTOW — A 23-year-old Tampa man was found guilty Wednesday of fatally shooting a Lakeland woman in her home in 2013. ..

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