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Clearwater's Mike Lufriu, right, who will celebrate his 55th birthday on June 15, participates in the Pride Run St. Pete 5K race on Saturday morning with his husband and friend during the St. Pete PrideFest celebration at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg. Lufriu said it's “good to be around everybody."
A smaller, safer Pride returns to St. Petersburg after pandemic pause
Still no parade this year. But the slimmed down St. Pete PrideFest still gave the LGBTQ community a chance to celebrate, and reflect.
Woman arrested days after SUV plows through Pasco cycling studio
A 33-year-old was arrested on charges that she drove an SUV through Cycle Bar Gym, a cycling studio at 8918 Strength Ave. in Trinity, then drove off, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The 33-year-old was spotted at a Publix, driving the same damaged SUV wanted in the crash. Troopers were waiting outside when she was done shopping.
Got goals? Lightning score six in a comeback win over Hurricanes
Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov celebrates after beating Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek for his second goal of the game to go up 6-4 during the third period Saturday at Amalie Arena.
Down two goals, the Lightning scored three straight during an eight-goal second period.
‘Pride still goes on’ for trans Floridians after sports law, budget cuts
Smiling faces and bright colors are seen behind a wall of bubbles and foam being sprayed to the crowd during the Tampa Pride Diversity Parade, on Saturday, May 22, 2021 in Ybor City
St. Pete Pride returns as transgender people find themselves targeted by a wave of restrictive laws in Florida and across the nation.
U.S. total
Yesterday's total
Cases
33,343,297
16,860
Deaths
597,001
567
Florida total
Since June 4
Cases
2,329,867
1,878
Deaths
37,717
52

Last updated 12:30 p.m. June 5. The Florida total includes in-state residents and non-residents who tested positive while visiting the state. Source: Johns Hopkins and Florida Department of Health

Travel nurses Jennifer Evans, of Bradenton, left, and Alexandra Chang, of Tampa, pose for a portrait in Tampa. After working the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in hospitals in New York, Evans and Chang joined a group of nurses making efforts to travel to Nepal and India to help hospitals overburdened with a coronavirus outbreak there.
COVID-19 is ravaging India and Nepal. These Tampa Bay nurses want to go.
But first, they have to get there. They’re part of a group of about 40 American nurses planning their own medical mission.
D-Day spirit of remembrance lives on, despite pandemic
Charles Shay, the 96-year-old native American from Indian Island, Maine, salutes during a D-Day ceremony in Carentan, Normandy, Friday, June 4, 2021. In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applauds broke the silence to honor Charles Shay. He was the only veteran to attend the ceremony in Carentan commemorating the 77th anniversary of the assault that led to the end World War II. Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
Travel restrictions have made it hard, but not impossible, to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the Allied invasion of western Europe.
Tampa man, 46, faces murder charge in shooting, police say
Timothy Weeks, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to Tampa police.
The fatal shooting took place near N Rome Avenue and W Main Street, according to Tampa police.
At 92, Jeanne Coyle Sargent is retiring after 59 years in real estate. Maybe.
Realtor Jeanne Coyle Sargent poses for a portrait in front of Coyle Realty.
Coyle Sargent is “pretty sure” she is the area’s oldest real estate agent.

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Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov celebrates after beating Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek for his second goal of the game to go up 6-4 during the third period Saturday at Amalie Arena.
Rich Hill changes things up without changing a thing in Rays’ win
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Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Rich Hill (14) throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 5, 2021, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)
Well, that Lightning victory was a thrill and a blast. It was also lucky.
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Lightning center Steven Stamkos shoots and scores his first goal of the game, beating Carolina goaltender Petr Mrazek during second-period action Saturday at Amalie Arena.
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Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) celebrates his second goal of the game to give Tampa Bay a 5-4, second-period lead Saturday at Amalie Arena.
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On Jan. 25, 2011, President Barack Obama hugs Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to delivering his State of the Union address. From left are, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Obama, Justice Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool, File)
These are the people we owe in Afghanistan | Column
Yesterday• Opinion
Former Afghan interpreters for the U.S. and NATO forces gather during a demonstration in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, this spring on the eve of the beginning of Washington's formal troop withdrawal, although forces have been drawn down for months.
Prosecutors and Red Tides and bears! Oh my! All in the past week in Tampa Bay | Editorial
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Letter of the month and Florida as an ‘apocalyptic hellscape’ | Letters
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Florida as seen from space.
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Robert Irvin and Yvette Lewis with the the Hillsborough County NAACP, walk across a grassy field believed to once hold burial sections for Cubans and Blacks. Lewis would like the Italian Club, who owns the cemetery, to pay for ground penetrating radar, at the Italian Club Cemetery located in College Hill in Tampa.
1,200 graves are missing in Tampa. How did they disappear?
College Hill Cemetery had sections for Cuban and Black burials from the 1880s through 1930s. That land is now the Italian Club Cemetery’s parking lot.
Those closest to Troy Phirangee are making a tradition of visiting his favorite spot, Ben T. Davis Beach, each May around the anniversary of his fatal shooting. They scattered his ashes here. From left, Sean Phirangee, 18, Phirangee's son; Aruna Jhagroo-Sookoor, 43, Phirangee's former partner; and Anil Jhagroo, 49, Aruna's brother and Phirangee's good friend.
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