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Kids fly to finish line in Bradenton's Leprechaun, Shamrock races

Holmes Beach youth is crowned Manatee's fastest kid.

• Lakewood Ranch celebrates being Irish in style at festival

• Our Neighborhoods | Central Park in Lakewood Ranch at 'center of universe'

• Some reasons to be grateful for Ireland on St. Patrick's Day

• Q and A: Bradenton's Paul Azinger discusses, Tiger, the future of the game and his own playing career

Local News

Mannix About Manatee: Turning Points, One Stop Center vital agency

City Council needs to let Turning Points/One Stop Center continue doing its admirable job for homeless, needy.

• 5 superstar women honored by Bradenton women's group

• Our Neighborhoods | Central Park in Lakewood Ranch at 'center of universe'

• Kids fly to finish line in Bradenton's Leprechaun, Shamrock races

• Lakewood Ranch celebrates being Irish in style at festival

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Crime

PHOTO GALLERY | Inmates booked in at Manatee jail on March 16, 2014

• FHP detours I-75 traffic after brush fire smoke obscures road 3 hours ago

• Gunmen beat, rob man in Bradenton home invasion

• Man robbed in Bradenton after catching ride with strangers

• Bradenton woman charged with stabbing husband during fight

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Sports

Pittsburgh Pirates | Turnaround artist Clint Hurdle vows to 'live it on the edge'

There's a picture of manager Clint Hurdle hanging in the Pittsburgh Pirates' clubhouse at McKechnie Field.

• Q and A: Bradenton's Paul Azinger discusses, Tiger, the future of the game and his own playing career

• Commentary | NFL math proves DRC made good decision, Revis is a genius

• Outdoors | Use kayaks, unconventional tactics to target fish in springtime

• Bishop gets 31st win, Lightning top Devils 3-0

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Business

Crimeans vote to leave Ukraine, join Russia

Just two weeks after Russian troops seized their peninsula, Crimeans voted Sunday to leave Ukraine and join Russia, overwhelmingly approving a referendum that sought to unite the strategically important Black Sea region with the country it was part... 8 minutes ago

• Poll: ruling party wins big in Serbian election 8 minutes ago

• Final words from jet came after systems shutdown 8 minutes ago

• 16 killed in stampedes for jobs in Nigeria 8 minutes ago

• EU mulling next steps against Russia over Ukraine 8 minutes ago

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Opinion

Put more Sunshine into U.S. Senate campaigns

Today marks the beginning of Sunshine Week, the nationwide annual call for greater open government so citizens, voters and taxpayers can keep track of money in politics and other transparency issues.

• Reality on Obamacare myths

• Senseless to invade tribal nations opposed to democracy

• U.S. withdrawal will pluck defeat from the jaws of victory

• Gov. Askew led Florida in many positive developments

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Living

Hall of Famer Schmidt recovering from skin cancer

Mike Schmidt sat down at a picnic table beyond the left-field wall on a sunny morning at Bright House Field, then scooted over to seek the shade of some palm trees and a light tower. 5 minutes ago

• Indiana baseball death creates lifesaving legacy 34 minutes ago

• Young Iowa cancer patient helps implode building 2 hours ago

• Wyoming legislator defends book about gays, AIDS

• New Ind. Veterans' Home chief aims to improve care

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Entertainment

'Daddy Long Legs' delights in Sarasota

The Florida premiere of a musical based on the juvenile novel "Daddy-Long-Legs" is a wonderful surprise at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota.

• Some reasons to be grateful for Ireland on St. Patrick's Day

• Best-sellers: March 16

• For some ambitious scribes, it's blog today, book tomorrow

• 'Bone Deep' not among White's best

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Lakewood Ranch

Our Neighborhoods | Central Park in Lakewood Ranch at 'center of universe'

Neighborhood Profile featuring Lakewood Ranch's newest community to the North of SR 70, Central Park, which is almost sold to capacity.

• Central Park at a glance

• ArtCenter Manatee brings fine art to life in Lakewood Ranch

• Whiskey festival coming to Sarasota

• Out-of-Door Academy Banyan Bash

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