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MELVIN ALLEN …Died after being struck by car   A 47-year-old man died after being struck by a vehicle late Wednesday. The accident took place in the 1300 block of East Hillsborough Avenue. According to police, Melvin Allen, of Tampa, was walking westbound on the sidewalk around 11 p.m. He reportedly stepped off the sidewalk and […]

DR. ANTOINETTE LLOYD, MD   The Calvary Community Clinic welcomes to its team Antoinette Lloyd, MD, who will serve as the Medical Director for the clinic. Dr.Lloyd is an experienced physician, having practiced medicine for over 30 years. She received her Medical Degree with Honors, from Yale University School of Medicine and is Board Certified in […]

Corporate Center, the cluster of midrise office buildings surrounding International Plaza in Tampa, could soon see a significant expansion.

United Insurance Holdings Corp. has offered the city of St. Petersburg $5 million to buy the 800 block of 1st Avenue South downtown. The company, which does business as UPC Insurance, plans to build a new corporate headquarters on the site, it said in a letter to the city. It would add more than 150,000 square feet of Class A office space to the city’s inventory, the letter said. The company has 250 employees now and plans to add 300 jobs in the next few years, the letter said. It has outgrown…

A 20-year-old hotel looks completely new after being the first in the area to be a prototype of Marriott's new decor package. The Residence Inn Tampa Sabal Park/Brandon, managed by McKibbon Hospitality, has completed its multimillion-dollar renovation, with bathrooms, public spaces and amenities all upgraded. "This is the first design rolled out for the new renovations," Robert Newton, Residence Inn by Marriott (NASDAQ: MAR) Tampa Sabal Park general manager, told the Tampa Bay Business Journal.…

by ALEJANDRO ROMERO, JAMIE ZALE AND VERONICA BROWN Knowing your rights is important. Knowing how to defend yourselves against anyone infringing on your First Amendment rights is crucial.  Alejandro Romero, Multimedia Editor for The Minaret and  Jamie Zale and Veronica Brown, contributing multimedia journalists for The Minaret, had a firsthand experience in being kicked off The Marion Transit, an alleged private bus station. But how is the property private when the agency providing the service to the bus station is funded by taxpayers money? The trio spent an entire semester dedicated to informing student of their first amendment rights. See the journey that they went through in order for us to know our rights. Editor’s Note: This documentary comes as a continuation of The Minaret’s earlier reports from the story “Students First Amendment Right’s Questioned.” The Editor-in-Chief of The Minaret was interviewed in this documentary, but had no say in its production before its first public showing.  

BY JOHN FELTMAN The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)  claims to be a non-profit organization in which their mission is “to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.” But the real question is, is that really their mission? Every single year, the NCAA generates billions of dollars in revenue, and claims to recycle all of that money back into the organization’s funding. This has been a controversial issue for years now, and this is an issue that will only continue to pick up steam. Student athletes on average spend 40-50 hours on their sport per week and along with time being spent in the classroom it’s hard to see how student athletes survive. Getting a part time job is out of the question. Unless they are provided with unlimited meals and housing by their university, it’s uncertain how they get by with no source of income. “I agree it is tough for players to have a part time job and stay up with academics and their sport,” Adrian Bush,UT Men’s Head Soccer Coach, said, “Academics needs to be first, [...]

By MAURICIO RICH The price drops. Then it rises. It plunges again. Frustration. That’s the volatility of the cryptocurrency market since they became popular in the past five years. For those who are still unfamiliar with it, let me tell you. It is the future. Cryptocurrencies are virtual coins which can be bought and sold, essentially to make profit, but also to send money with no fee to somebody around the world. So where do people actually buy these coins? They are exchanges and they have hundreds of different coins, but of course not all of them are reliable. Think of a virtual store that only sells coins. Once they are purchased, traditional currencies such as dollars or euros become cryptocurrencies. For example, if you purchase five Litecoins at $100, then those five coins are worth the money you invest. If the value of the coin increases, you win. The coins are kept in virtual wallets in the exchange. Coins have different prices and they can either rise or drop depending on how many people buy or sell a particular coin. If a bank or a big company backs up a coin, people will believe it is a safe coin [...]

There were no reports of injuries, but at least one report of sticky shoes.

The job will be remote with a pay of $40/hour but on an as-needed basis.

The final regular season tournament of the year wraps up this weekend at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC.