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2014 has been the year of a lot of things – unnecessary Facebook quizzes, selfies, lawsuits against Obama – it’s also been a year of awesome life hacks. These are little-known, awesome tricks that can help to make life just a little easier. How to use a pizza box as a paper plate. The real way to eat an apple. The real way to peel a banana. How to use a Chinese takeout box as a plate. How to keep…

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There’s not a whole lot going on in Tallahassee this time of year, or anywhere elected officials typically work for that matter. So without much else to brag about, Governor Rick Scott is using today to highlight the state’s partnership with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and the Building Homes for Heroes program that offers mortgage-free housing to injured veterans. The state received a $2 million DEO grant, Building Homes for Heroes to build or modify Florida jones…

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It’s this week! Not Christmas – that’s this week, too – the first ever Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. It’s a big deal for football lovers because, well, college football, but this year it’s a big deal to a whole new group of people because of its name. Kickoff for the Bitcoin Bowl at Tropicana Field is Friday at 8 p.m. But there’s a whole lot more to look forward to than just the matchup between the University of Central Florida…

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It’s almost Christmas and many people are in last minute shopping mode. Even the most prepared of holiday shoppers wake up on Christmas Eve only to realize someone has been forgotten. If that person on your list happens to be a kid, let me offer a list of what NOT to get for the little tyke. Non-parents and naïve parents of grown children often hit the toy store in search of that special gift that will make them the “cool…

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A Tarpon Springs police officer was shot and killed around 3 a.m. this morning. Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies and the Tarpon Springs Police Department are investigating the shooting that happened at Glen’s Eureka Apartments on Grand Avenue near the Sponge Docks. WTSP reports officers were dispatched for a noise complaint. The suspect was banging on residents’ doors. When police arrived the suspect shot at the officers and then fled in a vehicle before crashing. The fallen officer and suspect have…

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The PR folks over at Game of Thrones are either wildly genius or insanely mad. Either way, they’ve been bested by some cheeky Redditors. If you’ve seen any of the trailers, you know they are nothing but a giant tease leaving you staring at the screen with a dumbfounded look, mouth agape and muttering, ‘that’s it?’ But yet it hurts so good to watch just a few seconds of what might be screen shots from the next season, amiright? The…

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After nine years of making us laugh until we cry at all things preposterous in the news, Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” is a wrap. The satirical news show was bid farewell by an all-star cast of celebrities, politicians and even an activist that seemed to pour out by the dozen. Breaking Bad’s Brian Cranston, Law and Order’s Sam Waterson, James Franco, Sir Patrick Stewart, Gloria Steinem, Barry Manilow, Willie Nelson, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, George Lucas, Jeff Daniels – the…

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