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Unit 1506 at The Tower Residences, 35 Watergate Drive, has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,799 square feet of living area. It sold for $950,000. File photo.
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Richard Chen submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key beach.
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Richard Chen submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key beach.

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Captain Conservation shows off his superhero pose as Jordon King, 9, looks on, Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Bayhaven Elementary.
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No ideas are more fundamental to our nation's heritage and moral principles than those expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Brian Moran watches as his wife, Erin, does the sign for “cake” and their daughter, Aura, 19 mos., tries to imitate.
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The Baby Rhyme and Sign Time at Gulf Gate Library is a program for babies and toddlers from 0 to 24 months that has become quite a popular program at the library over the last four years.

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This marks the fourth time New College has been among the top three public school offerings in the Princeton Review and USA Today’s ranks.
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New College was ranked by the Princeton Review and USA Today as the no. 3 "Best Value College in America" for 2012.

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