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It’s not all about chasing younger men as the likable set of wine-sipping neighbours of Cougar Town return for season three. Chief cougar Jules (Courteney Cox) has been through the divorced-mum-starting-over phase and is now out the other side. She’s not happy when Grayson calls her predictable, but maybe he’s just trying to hide that big old surprise he has up his sleeve. Bizarrely, it involves lots of toilet paper. Elsewhere, deadpan best mate Ellie and her husband Andy have bigger things to worry about as Stan appears to be turning into their very own devil child. Hannah Verdier
New Girl8.30pm, Channel 4
This week it’s Schmidt’s 29th birthday. A reunion with a teen buddy might cheer him up, however, as the gang set off on a drunken and ill-fated party bus ride, in which the hasty booking of a “last-minute stripper” by Jess leads to an unfortunate mix-up. New Girl is perky as a button but the absence of a laugh track doesn’t make it more sophisticated; rather, the effect is to reduce the gag count, and its very cuteness remains grating at times. David Stubbs

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TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa Bay area tow company owner who claimed he fatally shot a man in self-defense has been convicted of murder.
A Hillsborough County jury found Donald Montanez guilty Thursday of manslaughter, third-degree murder and other charges.
Prosecutors say Montanez directed his employees in January 2006 to tow Glen Rich’s car from behind a strip club, where it was legally parked. The car and others were taken to a nearby drop site, which the property owners say Montanez’s company was not authorized to use.
When Rich tracked down his car and tried to drive away in it, Montanez shot the man, claiming Rich drove at him and his employees.
Witnesses testified that Montanez had pointed his gun at others trying to retrieve their vehicles before shooting Rich.

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WEAR ABC 3 News
Tow company owner guilty in fatal shooting
March 01, 2012 23:21 GMT
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Tampa Bay area tow company owner who claimed he fatally shot a man in self-defense has been convicted of murder.
A Hillsborough County jury found Donald Montanez guilty Thursday of manslaughter, third-degree murder and other charges.
Prosecutors say Montanez directed his employees in January 2006 to tow Glen Rich’s car from behind a strip club, where it was legally parked. The car and others were taken to a nearby drop site, which the property owners say Montanez’s company was not authorized to use.
When Rich tracked down his car and tried to drive away in it, Montanez shot the man, claiming Rich drove at him and his employees.
Witnesses testified that Montanez had pointed his gun at others trying to retrieve their vehicles before shooting Rich.

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Police: Tampa man fired gunshots along Hillsborough Ave., outside strip club
By Marissa Lang, Times Staff WriterMarissa LangTampa Bay Times In Print: Thursday, March 1, 2012
TAMPA — Police arrested a 30-year-old man Wednesday morning after he was seen firing gunshots up and down Hillsborough Avenue and outside the entrance to a strip club.
David Lealan Henderson was shooting a gun in the area of W Hillsborough Avenue and N Matanzas Avenue just after 12:30 a.m., police said. But by the time officers arrived, he had fled in a green 1998 Ford Mustang, officials said.
Just before 1:30 a.m. Henderson shot his gun about five times near W Hillsborough Avenue and N Lincoln Avenue and then parked his car behind Hush Gentlemen’s Club, 3260 W Hillsborough Ave., police said.
Shortly after he went into the club, Henderson was kicked out for “creating a disturbance,” police said.

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Police: Tampa man, 30, fired gunshots along Hillsborough Ave, outside gentlemen’s club
By Marissa Lang, Times Staff WriterMarissa LangTampa Bay Times Posted: Feb 29, 2012 05:51 AM
TAMPA — A 30-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after he was seen firing gunshots up and down Hillsborough Avenue and outside the entrance to a gentlemen’s club, police said.
David Lealan Henderson, 30, was shooting a gun in the area of W Hillsborough Avenue and N Matanzas Avenue just after 12:30 a.m., police said. But by the time officers arrived, he had fled in a green 1998 Ford Mustang, officials said.
Just before 1:30 a.m. Henderson shot his gun about five times near W Hillsborough Avenue and N Lincoln Avenue and then parked his car behind Hush Gentlemen’s Club, 3260 W Hillsborough Avenue, police said.

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Bowden claims the police stepped up harassment by riding motorcycles on the sidewalk next to sleeping occupiers and dispatching a helicopter every night to hover above the camp. Starting in November, she says, “The police would show up every day and throw people’s goods into their vehicles or city trucks and haul them away.” At night, when the park was closed, the police “would grab boxes or carts and toss them into the park to bait the protesters. If they tried to retrieve their belongings they would be trespassed or arrested.” Under Florida state law, police can issue a trespass warning that effectively bars a person from public parks for up to six months, which has happened to numerous Occupy Tampa members.
Worn down by the harassment, arrests and negative publicity that resulted, the occupation at Curtis Hixon Park dwindled to a lone protester much of the time. That’s when a guardian angel arrived in the form of strip club king Joe Redner. A self-made member …

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Joe Musso’s play offers a skewed update of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, set in the sleazy New Orleans underworld during the chaos of Hurricane Katrina. Wilde’s Herod becomes Rod (Boston Stergis), a bullying fence of stolen goods and proprietor of a down-scale strip club, with a letch for his nubile stepdaughter Celie, i.e. Salome (Lauren A. Nelsen). Herodias becomes Rod’s trashy wife, Greta (Denise Devlin), who strips in his club. When a demented street preacher called the Prophet (Philip J. Wheeler) begins denouncing Greta for her iniquity, she develops an intense hatred for him and wants Rod to kill him. During a birthday party for Rod, she persuades Celie to dance for him in her faux tiger-skin bikini, as a ploy to persuade him to off the Prophet. The result is a thundering Grand Guignol melodrama, with plenty of sex and violence to satisfy aficionados of horror-flick blood-and-gore-all-over-the-floor. ZJU Theatre Group, 4850 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hlywd.; Fri., 11 p.m.; thru Feb. 24. (818) 202-4120, zombiejoes.com. (Neal Weaver)

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Welfare money spent at theme parks, strip clubs
Lawmakers seek rules for government assistance
Updated: Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 8:47 AM ESTPublished : Thursday, 02 Feb 2012, 10:45 PM EST
TAMPA – Some Florida lawmakers want to stop welfare abuse by setting new rules for where government assistance cards can be used.
Every month, Florida gives needy families million of dollars in temporary cash assistance. It’s supposed to help them cover basic living expenses. But there are no rules that limit where the government assistance (EBT) cards can be used.
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We even found thousands withdrawn at casinos in Florida and on the Las Vegas strip. We also found withdrawals at two strip clubs.
“It should be easy for the government to say you can’t use EBT in a strip club,” observed Tampa resident Tim Blue.
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State lawmakers are debating a plan that would ban state benefit withdrawals at strip clubs, casinos and out-of-state ATMs. But there are no guarantees it will pass.

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Cleo’s Strip Club, at 1948 E. Hillsborough Ave., advertised for dancers, but city officials say the business is operating legally.
KATHY STEELE/STAFF

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The requirements were simple: You had to know how to use a cellphone, you needed access to Skype and you couldn’t have worked as a stripper.
Baristas Coffee Co. held a casting call Monday outside its soon-to-open Tampa location for people wanting to appear in its new reality show and work in the store.
The two-hour tryouts drew a small but diverse pool, from a 31-year-old single mother of four kids to a former child advocate volunteer. Not to mention a Swedish model in white shorts and a halter.
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The Baristas girls wear provocative costumes but no pasties or thongs. It’s not like Dolly’s Donuts, the well-publicized topless doughnut shop that operated briefly in Tampa in the mid 1980s. Former strippers don’t make the cut.
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Tampa’s reputation as a strip club capital didn’t hurt, either, he said.

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