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    Is this the way to eliminate your cable

    Need to save on your family budget?  How about dropping your monthly cable bill?  An invention offers customers high-definition television for free.  But is this "breakthrough technology" really simple and easy to use?

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      Dirty Dining: Sushi restaurants

      A special Dirty Dining I-Team investigation took a look at over 100 bay area sushi restaurants, and discovered a pattern of critical violations that could make you sick.

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      Defendant: FAMU drum major wanted hazing

      The parents of the drum major who died after the hazing incident last fall are denying reports their son begged to take part in the ritual.

    1. I-Team: Loophole can invalidate tickets

      I-Team: Loophole can invalidate tickets

      It’s a loophole in the law that most Florida drivers are unaware of.  Few motorists going to traffic court without a lawyer know about the so-called five-day rule.

    2. Dirty Dining: Sushi restaurants

      Dirty Dining: Sushi restaurants

      The I-Team reviewed the inspection reports of 100 sushi restaurants in the Tampa Bay area over the last year and found serious critical violations that could make you or your family sick.

    3. Program uses tax money on airline seats

      Program uses tax money on airline seats

      At a time when budgets are tight all across the nation, a federal program is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on empty airline seats.

    4. Tonight: I-Team exposes ticket loopholes

      Tonight: I-Team exposes ticket loopholes

      Ever gotten a speeding ticket?  Or maybe one for an illegal U-turn or lane change?  If so, you’re one of four million Florida drivers who are ticketed each year.  They cost you hundreds of dollars, and bring in more than $100 million to the state. 

    1. I-Team: Big fines can be hard to collect


    2. I-Team: No charity fundraising costs?

    3. I-Team: State makes millions off tickets


    4. More government sites posted SS# info

    5. 5 Armwood players found ineligible

    6. I-Team: Sickness of the seas


    7. I-Team: Debt collector draws criticism

    8. Dirty Dining: Dollar discount stores

    9. VIDEO: Bomb plot suspect's '11 interview

    10. Dollar stores failing with the state


    11. I-Team: What damage can an ID thief do?


    12. Best things to buy at the dollar store


    1. I-Team: Bullied child's family relocates

    2. Co-worker calls Zimmerman a 'bully'


    3. Which red-light camera catches most?

    4. I-Team: TGH boss tops nonprofit pay list


    5. Dirty Dining: Cruise ships

    6. Tax fraud strikes another neighborhood


    7. I-Team: Hospice CEO pay on the rise


    8. I-Team: Curve in road worries neighbors

    9. I-Team: Some criminals escape wiretaps


    10. I-Team: Gov't posts SS numbers online

    11. I-Team: Truck gear failing in crashes

    12. I-Team: Which area schools test best?


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    • Meet the I-Team

    1. Jackie Callaway

      Jackie Callaway

      Jackie Callaway is the ABC Action News consumer advocate, Taking Action For You every day.

      • Alan Cohn

        Alan Cohn

        Alan Cohn is the chief investigative reporter at ABC Action News

        • Michael George

          Michael George

          Michael is always looking to uncover stories important to our community. He is interested in exposing government workers wasting time on the job and ways in which your tax dollars are being misused.

          • Wendy Ryan

            Wendy Ryan

            Wendy Ryan co-anchors the 6 and 11 o'clock editions. She also launched the popular “Dirty Dining” franchise shortly after joining ABC Action News.

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