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Amanda Davis and Ellis at the 2012 New York Law School commencement ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan The audience at Radio City City Music Hall cheered as Ellis trotted across the stage wearing his custom-stitched graduation gown.

Before long, college and high school students from Pinellas and Hillsborough counties will be learning and performing at Ruth Eckerd Hall.

With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, veterans became a prime target of for-profit colleges hoping to cash in on the new windfall of federal education dollars.

Senior first baseman Nathan Minnich of the Shepherd Univesity baseball team has been named one of six finalists for the 2012 Tino Martinez Award as the most outstanding player in DII college baseball.

UNC Charlotte exposes 350,000 social security numbers of students, staff, and faculty The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has admitted that financial account numbers and 350,000 social security numbers of students, staff, and faculty were exposed to the internet, in some cases for more than a decade.

There is no finer city for a political convention than Tampa. Although I have been a lifelong Democrat, the Republican party made a wise choice when it chose Tampa to host their convention.

City officials wanted to restrict the carrying of concealed firearms inside the Event Zone, but a 2011 Florida law prohibits them from passing any local regulation of guns or ammunition.

Wiregrass Ranch High students still plan to use the arts in their education. From left, Jesse Hu, 18, a musician, is leaning toward Duke; actors Joshua Goodridge, 18, and Christopher Baker, 18, both plan to major in the arts at UCF; Angel Rivera, 17, will study film at UT; and musician Nathan Tindall, 18, will go to Stanford.

Editor's note: This piece is part of a series of "city smackdowns" pitting rival cities against each other and letting you decide which one's best.

At 9:00 a.m., the former Massachusetts governor will attend a rally at the Mirror Lake Lyceum on 737 3rd Avenue North in St.

The tree, which has a trunk that's 3 feet in diameter, sits awaiting its next move.

DiSanto will play at North Carolina Weslyan in Rocky Mount, N.C. Franklin will play at the University of Tampa.

There was that call to the newsroom from an out-of-towner back when Tampa hosted its first Super Bowl.

PHILADELPHIA - The annual Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta is underway on the Schuylkill River.

Barack Obama made history this week becoming the first sitting President to support same sex marriage.

Columbia posts faculty social security numbers on the internet Columbia University has notified 3,000 faculty members that their names, addresses, social security numbers, and bank account numbers were available on the internet for two years.

Take a ride on the Admiral Tilp and join in all the fun as you join the Potomac Pirates as they tell tales and entertain you on a 40 minute tour of history of Alexandria Seaport.

People tour an atheist welcome tent during the Reason Rally on the National Mall March 24, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Louis Post-Dispatch when he was an Illinois state senator: "I support civil unions to guarantee basic rights to same-sex couples.

Ratliff worked for News Channel 8 for 27 years, from 1982 to 2009. He served as the morning news anchor and managing editor at the station.