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The fire broke out at the MÜV Medical Cannabis Dispensary in Clearwater, Florida, disrupting traffic on the highway and prompting at least a dozen firefighters to the building.

Baytex Energy Corp (TSX:BTE) (OTC:BTEGF) has been upgraded to Outperform from Sector Perform, and the price target was raised to C$8.75 from C$6.50 by National Bank analyst Dan Payne.  Payne attributed the upgrade to the outsized return potential represented within its Clearwater project acreage. The analyst believes the project will expand ahead of suggested…

CLEARWATER, Fla. — As Joe Girardi walked through the back corridors of the Phillies’ clubhouse Monday morning, he came upon Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins, dressed in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops, pantomiming phantom swings. Two hours later, Schwarber hit his first home run of spring training.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The optics were hard to miss.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — If Nick Castellanos plays with an edge — and it really isn’t open to interpretation, no matter what the new Phillies slugger said in his spirited introductory news conference here this week — then it probably took root in a manager’s office 14 years ago.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Aroldis Chapman is still the Yankees' closer. Manager Aaron Boone made that clear before Friday’s game. It’s just that the Yankees want to expand his role this season by using him in the eighth inning at times.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — It took Donny Sands three weeks to convince his mother, Alma, to sell her car. The Phillies catching prospect had just bought her a brand new Mercedes Benz with his signing bonus. It was pristine, but that was the problem. She didn’t want to drive it anywhere.…

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Nick Castellanos, after meeting the media for the first time as a Philadelphia Phillie, walked away from the podium on Wednesday afternoon and locked eyes with Karie Dombrowski, wife of president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Move over, Steve Cohen. There’s another big spender in the National League East.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — In his first meeting with the media since signing a one-year deal with the Phillies, right-handed reliever Jeurys Familia told reporters he believes he “paid for what happened” after the incident between he and his wife, Bianca Rivas, that occurred in Fort Lee, N.J. in 2016.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A year ago, the Phillies gave Odúbel Herrera a chance to be the opening day center fielder.