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Short supply of beef and pork sends prices soaring

The price of beef and veal shot up more than 10 percent from June 2013 to June 2014, according to the most recent Consumer Price Index. Pork prices rose by 12 percent.

• Smoke-filled room? Legal marijuana debated at National Press Club

• Pot may be legal, but homeowner agreements can ban

• Migrants: Obama urges Latin leaders, GOP to help 56 minutes ago

• Mud flies thick and fast in Florida governor race

Local News

Manatee School Board, county commission candidates look for votes in Myakka City

Manatee County candidates courted Myakka City voters Thursday at a forum.

• 'Safe Sales': Manatee Sheriff's Office offering security for Internet deals

• Manatee Education Association selects Aranibar, Carpenter, Jones for Manatee County school board seats

• Manatee County school district sets first public hearing on budget

• Holmes Beach police ask Manatee School District to pay nearly $52K for school resource officer

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Crime

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on July 25, 2014

Some of the latest arrivals at the Manatee County jail.

• Baby dies after being left in hot car in Kansas 21 minutes ago

• Youth soccer coach in Palmetto charged with sexually abusing girl 3 hours ago

• At least 1 hurt in crash at Bayshore Gardens Parkway and U.S. 41

• Police: Garage was crime scene in prof's slaying

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Sports

Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Pro Bowl guard Carl Nicks leaves team, reaches injury settlement

Apparently there is good reason former Pro Bowl guard Carl Nicks was not working out with Tampa Bay Buccaneers this summer.

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Lovie Smith's first report day anything but routine

• Navardauskas wins rainy Stage 19, Nibali in control of Tour

• Commentary | Ace Sanders' predicament proves he is human just like the rest of us

• Suspended WR Blackmon arrested on drug complaint

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Business

Business briefs: Publix demolition marks start of LA Fitness construction

Business briefs for July 25

• Obama says tax law must change to stop 'corporate deserters'

• Ribbon cutting: Castle Creations Chocolatiers

• Setting credit limits is a must

• Swelling revenues end port furloughs early

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Opinion

Legal challenges to Obamacare bad for Floridians

You could call the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act semi-successful, with two different appellate courts issuing opposite opinions on whether the IRS has the right to send health insurance tax credits to consumers buying through the federal...

• Rotten VA apples not here in Tampa Bay region

• Facts are Obama taking less vacation than Bush

• Bickering, disinformation return to Herald letters

• Voters stick to their party's candidate, right or wrong

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Living

• Dallas-area doctor convicted of health care fraud

• Giants RB Jennings remembers "fat kid"

• Still sparkling: Ellenton woman celebrates 105th birthday Saturday

• Many tumeric supplements fall short

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Entertainment

• Lincoln, Civil War exhibit to open

• Dining Guide: July 24-30

• Fox won't air men's retry of failed Knievel jump

• London critics fall for 'Shakespeare in Love'

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Lakewood Ranch

Sarasota cricket club, rugby program team up in Lakewood Ranch

Cricket joins with rugby to bring more international sports to Lakewood Ranch.

• East Manatee's Dream Oaks Camp brings happiness to disabled, ill campers

• Sashay Dance Club in Lakewood Ranch closes

• Sunglass Hut coming to Mall at University Town Center

• Lakewood Ranch district hires trapper to haul away hogs

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