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St Pete SWAT On Scene After Shots Fired St. Petersburg SWAT officers are on the scene after receiving a call of shots fired inside the home at 810 Jackson Street North.

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Nik Wallenda To Walk Orlando Eye Famed Florida daredevil Nik Wallenda will perform one of his most unusual stunts to date: he'll walk, untethered, atop the new, 400-foot-high Orlando Eye Ferris wheel.

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Grand Jury First Degree Murder Indictment for Johan Chiri Grand jurors returned a first-degree murder indictment against a man accused of slashing his wife throat while their daughters slept in their Daytona Beach apartment.

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Palm Harbor Man Targeting Women

Palm Harbor Man Targeting Women

The Pinellas County sheriff warns parents there’s a serial stalker groping girls and women in Palm Harbor, and he’s getting more aggressive.

He’s hit three times in the past month, all near Alderman Road and Cinnamon Hill Boulevard, not far from Carwise Middle School. Most recently he’s accused of grabbing a 12-year-old girl.

Deputies are putting up fliers at area businesses. They’re asking the…

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SpaceX Successful Launch SpaceX has confirmed successful deployment in orbit of Turkmenistan's first communications satellite after a 7:03 p.m. launch from Cape Canaveral.

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The Morning After Baltimore Burns

Baltimore @MayorSRB institute's a 10 p.m. curfew starting tonight.

Baltimore is ready to return to normal

Baltimore -Special for News Talk Florida – The sun has come up this morning over Baltimore and people are getting back to work , as best they can. There are National Guard, Maryland State Police and City of Baltimore Police are out in force as people try evaluate the damage less than 24 hours after the worst rioting the city has seen since the day Dr. Martin…

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Is James Holmes Insane?

The jury in the James Holmes trial is deliberating if he was insane or not. @astoneabcnews discussed.

Daniel King, an attorney for the Colorado theater shooter, has cited a history of mental illness on both sides of James Holmes’ family, including an aunt with schizophrenic affective disorder. He said during opening arguments that Holmes was a normal child through elementary school but began to have mental health problems in middle school.

He says Holmes attempted suicide at age 11. The…

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Kathmandu: Shelter, News, Food In Short Supply

ABC's @TomRiversABC joined us to discuss the latest in #Kathmandu.

The official death toll following the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal over the weekend has topped 4,000. Kathmandu is short on everything: shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers, as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs. The numbers and the related stories keep changing.

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Fire At Tampa Mosque

Fire At Tampa Mosque

About sixty children evacuated the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Monday afternoon when fire broke out in the mosque’s daycare.

The blaze apparently started in a rooftop air conditioning unit at the East Sligh Avenue facility.

No injuries are reported.

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Rep King: Obama's Iran Negotiations Designed to Kick In Once Out of Office

Rep King: Obama’s Iran Negotiations Designed to Kick In Once Out of Office

IOWA – Congressman Steve King (R) questions the relievancy of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The Congressman also touches on Michele Bachmann’s comments of Obama “virtually guaranteeing a World War III,” Hillary Clinton’s mounting scandals and predicts strong democratic challengers to the Clinton juggernaut.

Rep. King also held a Freedom Summit which organizers billed it as an unofficial…

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Jeb: "Best Part" of Obama Admin is NSA's Bulk Collection of Phone and Internet Metadata

Jeb: “Best Part” of Obama Admin is NSA’s Bulk Collection of Phone and Internet Metadata

FLORIDA – Believe it or not, likely 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush thinks President Obama has done a good job, at least in one way.

Bush is praising Obama for not bowing to the pressure to get rid of controversial National Security Agency spying programs.

NSA has been caught multiple times spying on American citizens on a mass scale.

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MOSI May Move To Downtown Tampa

MOSI May Move To Downtown Tampa

The Museum of Science and Industry and Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik are talking about moving the facility to downtown Tampa.

Vinik apparently wants to make MOSI part of his billion dollar downtown redevelopment plan.

MOSI officials say there are no immediate plans to abandon the longtime East Fowler Avenue location for a spot near Amalie Arena, but confirm that informal talks are taking…

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Poinciana Police Standoff Ends With One Dead

Poinciana Police Standoff Ends With One Dead

  A mentally ill man is dead after an hours-long standoff with police in the Polk County town of Poinciana.

Authorities say 34 year old Steven Bradley broke into a neighbor’s Wallaby Lane home Monday morning.

He held the family of four hostage with two handguns while police surrounded the house and tried to talk him out.

At one point, the woman and two children escaped through a bathroom window.

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Search Underway For Missing Panhandle Swimmer

Search Underway For Missing Panhandle Swimmer

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) _ The search continues for a swimmer who went missing off Crab Island in the Florida Panhandle.

The Northwest Daily News reports the 20-year-old man didn’t return after going for a swim on Sunday evening. He had rented a boat with a group of friends to spend the day on Crab Island.

Officials say the man and a female friend got off the boat to swim around 5 p.m. Sunday. The…

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West Palm Beach Doctor Could Get Prison

West Palm Beach Doctor Could Get Prison

  WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) _ A south Florida doctor who failed to pay nearly $6.4 million in taxes could face up to three years behind bars.

The Sun-Sentinel reports 57-year-old Dr. Krishna Tripuraneni, a gastroenterologist in a West Palm Beach suburb, will be sentenced Monday.

Tripuraneni was indicted in 2013 and began paying the money he owed the IRS before formally pleading guilty to federal tax…

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Ocala Toddler Drowns in Inflatable Pool

Ocala Toddler Drowns in Inflatable Pool

OCALA, Fla. (AP) _ A toddler found lying in an inflatable swimming pool outside his Ocala home has died.

The Ocala Star Banner reports 2-year-old Manuel Mercado Jr. died Sunday at a Gainesville hospital.

Police say 32-year-old Brandi Dyal told them she was lying in bed around 8 a.m. on Saturday after giving the toddler and his 3-year-old brother drinks.

The boys managed to get outside and she…

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SWAT Team Exchanges Gunfire In Poinciana The Polk County Sheriff's Office SWAT team responded this morning after a resident was held hostage at a home in Poinciana.