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Here's a look at the top stories on Palm Harbor Patch from May 13-19.

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Angelica Lee Hall, 18, of Palm Harbor was a passenger on a motorcycle that crashed Thursday morning. It was the second time she was involved a crash in less than two months. In both wrecks, Shay Daniel Lydon, 20, of Palm Harbor was the driver.

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An arrest affidavit says store surveillance video recorded John Acton, 46, as he swung his cell phone underneath the victim's dress.

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Palm Harbor resident Neal Seth Smalbach, 49, was arrested Tuesday on felony grand theft charges. State investigators say he misrepresented financial investments to seniors causing them to lose more than $2 million.

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The passing grade for Florida's standardized writing test has been lowered by an emergency rule, keeping the failure rate basically unchanged, TBO.com reports.

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The Palm Harbor Library is one of 40 libraries nationwide that was awarded a $1,000 Summer Teen Internship Program Grant.

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We got a first look at one of the new Iphone cases that will feature the artwork of legendary Florida Highwayman artist Robert L. Lewis, 71.

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A man enlisted in the U.S. Army left his pet lemurs in the care of volunteers at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, and four years later, one of them recently birthed a pup.

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