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— I normally don’t post crime stories in these Linkage pieces, but I can’t resist sharing this one, from the Bradenton Herald. The lede: “A 42-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after witnesses said he tried cutting a pair of shorts off another man.

“According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, James Williams Jr. … arrived home at about 7 p.m. Tuesday to find his brother and a friend sitting in the front yard drinking.

“Williams confronted the friend, saying the red and white football shorts he was wearing had great sentimental value and told him to take them off. The man said the shorts were not Williams’ and that if he wanted them to take them from him. Williams pushed the man to the ground and started cutting the shorts off the victim with a small razor blade or small pocket knife, witnesses said.”

— “Two businessmen ended negotiations with Sarasota on Wednesday, killing plans to run a year-round baseball academy and bring training operations of a Japanese team to Ed Smith Stadium.”

— A desperate cry of pain from local blogger Kat Cooper on her site, My Single Mom Life.

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