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SHADY HILLS — A 54-year-old Spring Hill woman died Tuesday night after she was hit by a vehicle.
Rose Marie Porter was walking along Shady Hills Road near Gifford Lane when a vehicle hit her, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. She was thrown to the side of the road, where she died.
The vehicle drove away; officers don't know the identity of the driver.
The Florida Highway Patrol is asking anyone with information about the incident to call (813) 631-4020.
Packing pinhole cereal box viewers, cardboard glasses and curiosity, solar gawkers gathered outside Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry on Monday for a show that required no ticket.
![At center, Sophia Butter, 8, and Kristina Butera, both of Valrico, watch the sun through eclipse viewing glasses during a solar eclipse party Monday at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa. MOSI will reopen after renovations on November 18. [MONICA HERNDON | Times]](/resources/images/dti/2017/08/504256161_19844745.jpg)
TALLAHASSEE — No, Florida State senior Jacob Pugh is not as versatile as teammate Derwin James.
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TAMPA — A Tampa police officer was treated and released for a knee injury when his unmarked police truck collided with a patrol SUV while the officers were tracking a stolen car, a police spokesman said.
ST. PETERSBURG — Hunter Holland came to school Monday with a NASA space T-shirt and solar viewers in his button-up shirt pocket. But he'd rather be in Missouri.
![Jayda Hebert (front, center), 11, uses her protective glasses to watch Monday's solar eclipse with her cousin, Judah Adams (back left), 11, and her brother Jake Hebert (right), 9, while with their family at St. Petersburg Beach. "We're skipping school for the eclipse," her mom, Sarah Hebert, said. [DIRK SHADD | Times]](/resources/images/dti/2017/08/504255831_19844353.jpg)
TAMPA — A second person has resigned symbolically from the Hillsborough County Diversity Advisory Council after the appointment of a known activist of Confederate causes to the panel.
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