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A 27-year-old man was killed Friday night launching the Auburndale Police Department into a homicide investigation.

The most exciting play in football may be a kickoff returned for a touchdown. It's got a little bit of everything — speed, unpredictability and, more often than not, bone-crushing hits — and it's been a part of the game for decades. But according to CBS Sports, the removal of kickoffs, and those returns, from college football is being discussed.

When he started in 2008, David Sparling worked out of a small office, not far from a six-seat, nine-computer laboratory, with the largest computer at the time being an iMac with about one gigabyte of memory. There was a decades-old practice room building with fewer than a dozen rooms, showing obvious signs of age, recalled Sparling, a Southeastern University assistant professor of broadcasting. Today, a state-of-the-art Mac lab has room for 30 students who have access to 28 16-gigabyte computers — the fastest processor currently available.

In an attempt to avoid paying for a high school football game, a Polk County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Officer allegedly pretended to be an undercover deputy, the Sheriff's Office said.

Blueberry farmer Bill Braswell and GOP activist J.C. Martin will face each other in the Aug. 30 primary election for the District 3 seat on the County Commission.