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Bradenton's Dana Pounds participated in her first 5K race using a running blade July 19 in New Jersey. The race was The Team Gov Invitational 5K hosted by "Seas It," a not-for-profit started in 2004 by Todd McGovern, who battled colon cancer for eight years before dying in January 2013. PROVIDED PHOTO

Bradenton amputee completes first 5K with running blade

Bradenton's Dana Pounds has just run her first 5K, with a running blade, despite long battle with cancer that cost her one leg.

Crime

Morgan Dettmer, resisting arrest, $500 bond.

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on July 28, 2014

Some of the latest arrivals at the Manatee County jail. 2 hours ago

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Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Chris Archer delivers to the Boston Red Sox during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, July 27, 2014, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Archer rankled by Ortiz, Bosox end TB's win streak

Chris Archer saved his brushback pitch for David Ortiz until after the game.

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DeSoto Square Mall in 1977. Bradenton Herald File Photo

DeSoto Square mall auction begins Tuesday

The 41-year-old DeSoto Square mall will be up for auction from Tuesday through Thursday, and even with a high bidder the place could not exchange hands. Community members and experts believe it's time for DeSoto Square to be reimagined.

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FILE - This undated file image shows the main gate of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland, which was liberated by the Russians in January 1945. Writing over the gate reads: "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes free - or work liberates).

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Selfies in Auschwitz -- and why it's wrong

In a place haunted by ghosts, on a thoroughfare of the damned, standing upon ground once watered by blood, Breanna Mitchell lifted a camera to take her own picture. She smiled a sunshine smile. 1 hour ago

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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, JULY 28 -- FILE - In this March 27, 2014 file photo is a marijuana vaporizer in Bloomington, Minn. After years of failed efforts, Minnesota lawmakers last session passed one of the nation’s strictest medical marijuana laws. Patients can only use a pill, liquid or vaporized form of the drug, and only those who suffer from eight illnesses. The state's real work has now begun, ranging from the mundane, like securing office space, to hiring a research director to help determine dosages and placing eight dispensaries across Minnesota.

Wanted: Manufacturers for new medical pot program

Dr. Marshall Brinton saw the headlines after Minnesota passed a medical marijuana law, looked around at the equipment in his old veterinary laboratory and thought: Yeah, I could do that.

Entertainment

Danny Lyon, American, born 1942, Memorial Day Run, Milwaukee, 1966, Silver gelatin print, Gift of Sally Strauss and Andrew Tomback, 2012, SN11346.27. Photo courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery and Magnum Photos.

Ringling Museum in Sarasota features famous photos of outlaw bikers

"The Bikeriders," an exhibt of iconic photographs of 'outlaw" motorcycle gangs inthe 1960s, opens at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota.

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Tidewater in Eagle Trace is a villa with over 2,000 square feet of property, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a two-car garage. PHOTO PROVIDED

Our Neighborhoods | Eagle Trace in East Manatee is another winning community for Neal

Neal Communities' newest community, Eagle Trace on State Road 64, is filling up fast.

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