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This combination of Associated Press photos shows left, a neighborhood in Moore, Okla., in ruins on Tuesday, May 4, 1999, after a tornado flattened many houses and buildings in central Oklahoma, and right, flattened houses in Moore on Monday, May 20, 2013. Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999. (AP Photo)

Oklahoma tornado

Devastating tornado slams Oklahoma City area. Photos.

From left, Dick Vitale, Bill Self and Bobby Bowden talk at the 8th Annual Dick Vitale Gala Benefiting The V Foundation at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota. PAUL VIDELA/Bradenton Herald

8th Annual Dick Vitale Gala

Photos from Dick Vitale's benefit for cancer research.

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IMG Academy celebrated the opening of its new five-story residence hall Monday. The new dorm is designed to provide 500 beds with the capability to expand to 1,000 beds for IMG summer programs. GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald

IMG celebrates $15M dorms in Bradenton

IMG Academy completes 500-bed residence hall as part of continued expansion.

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Jennifer Stiger, possession of synthetic marijuana/bath salts, possession of drug paraphernalia, $1,000 bond.

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on May 21, 2013

Some of the latest arrivals at the Manatee County jail.

Sports

Bayshore High head football coach Elijah Freeman works with players Monday during practice. GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald

New coach ushers in new era, attitude for Bayshore Bruins football team

Hard work on the field and performing in the classroom are just two things that Elijah Freeman is instilling in his players as Bayshore¿s spring...

Business

About $275 million will go to Tumblr founder David Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago.CHARLES SYKES/Invision for Advertising Week

Yahoo confirms $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr blogging service

Yahoo Inc. confirmed Monday that it will pay $1.1 billion for the popular blogging service Tumblr.

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The vehicle gate at Balmoral Woods Boulevard just off Lakewood Ranch Boulevard. Today's meeting is scheduled to allow three Lakewood Ranch districts to discuss cost sharing and related issues should District 6 vote to shut down its guard shack. PAUL VIDELA/Bradenton Herald

Find a neighborly solution to Lakewood Ranch security gate

Oftentimes, people purchase homes in a gated community for the security that "drawbridges" provide. Our castles should be afforded the greatest protection...

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For arthritis, aqua exercise is slow and gentle. It's especially gentle on joints because the water's buoyancy is so supportive. Raising the arms, moving the hips or bending the knee isn't as hard. As flexibility improves, stretching just a little farther isn't as painful. It also helps when the water is warm instead of cool. CHARLES BERTRAM/McClatchy Tribune

New Medicine Community offers aqua exercise for arthritis sufferers

The indoor pool at the Aquatic Center is kept at a comfortable 88 degrees and warm water bubbles up from the vents. It is only 3-1/2- to 4-feet deep...

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family.

Ray Manzarek of the Doors dies

Ray Manzarek, the co-founder and keyborad player for the Doors, has died of cancer. He was 74.

Lakewood Ranch

FILE PHOTO: Manatee County Commissioners Larry Bustle, Michael Gallen, Betsy Benac and Vanessa Baugh listen IN aPRIL to discussion of a referendum for a sales tax hike to pay for health care for the poor. TIFFANY TOMPKINS-CONDIE/Bradenton Herald

Gallen: Ads for Manatee County proposed sales tax increase are misleading

'I'm concerned the Healthy Manatee 1/2 penny sales tax campaign is making promises of tax relief,' Commissioner Gallen wrote to County Administrator... 3 hours ago

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