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MANATEE NEWS
- Manatee school will close to save district money
- Rotten Ralph's lease ends, new location to open
- New Manatee program focuses on small businesses
- Hats and Heels event raises money for homeless
- New plan unveiled to help Manatee businesses grow
- Police: Man stabbed wife, tried to kill self
- Manatee crime rate plunges, but homicides increase
- Superintendent cuts teachers' jobs to save money
- Changes coming to former Desoto Speedway
- Bradenton deputy chief celebrates retirement
Manatee Tech firefighting course needs more kids
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- Damaged trains being removed from wreck site
- Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition
- Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'
- Damaged trains set to be removed from wreck site
- Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
- Money tangle: The IRS and its tea party tempest
- Syrian army pushes assault on rebel-held town
- A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
- Chinese premier visits India to boost ties
World News
- Obama to speak on legality of drone program
- Kenya police kill "terror couple"
- Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation
- Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
- Pakistan repeats vote in Karachi despite killing
- Pakistan holds re-vote in Karachi despite killing
- North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters
- Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
- Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
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