Anthony Bigger, left, and friend Marc Smith paddle through standing water along 32nd Street SE in Ruskin Thursday afternoon as they make their way to their van to pick up Bigger's wife from work.
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We're in the third year of a drought and Tampa Bay's biggest reservoir is running low on water. So local officials asked the state water managers to crack down. What you need to know.
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On the night of April 24, an 18-year-old senior at East Bay High School was raped and her skull bashed while she was returning books to the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library.