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90°F, Broken Clouds
- Monday, July 15, 2019
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![Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins welcomes new teachers Monday during the Hillsborough Educator Institute at Chamberlain High in Tampa. More than 600 newly hired educators are coming from all across the country to teach in the nation's eighth-largest school district this year. [DIRK SHADD | Times]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159852/AR/0/AR-307159852.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins welcomes new teachers Monday during the Hillsborough Educator Institute at Chamberlain High in Tampa. More than 600 newly hired educators are coming from all across the country to teach in the nation's eighth-largest school district this year. [DIRK SHADD | Times]")
![Lashana Lynch in 'Captain Marvel.' The actor is said to be taking over the 007 codename in an upcoming James Bond film. [Walt Disney Studios]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159911/AR/0/AR-307159911.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Lashana Lynch in 'Captain Marvel.' The actor is said to be taking over the 007 codename in an upcoming James Bond film. [Walt Disney Studios]")
![This rendering from New York’s HKS Architects shows what a redeveloped Tropicana Field site could look like if it includes a new baseball stadium. Planners are calling the project the Gas Plant District, after the black neighborhood that was razed decades ago to build the dome. They are also designing a plan that does not include a stadium. The 86-acre Trop site is set to be redeveloped, but city officials don’t know whether to include a new ballpark for the Rays. Mayor Rick Kriseman says plans can proceed while the stadium issue is undecided, but others are unsure if developers would be willing to go along. There is also a question of whether the Rays can impede construction under the lease agreement that keeps the team playing in the dome through 2027. [HKS Architects]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719812/AR/0/AR-190719812.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "This rendering from New York’s HKS Architects shows what a redeveloped Tropicana Field site could look like if it includes a new baseball stadium. Planners are calling the project the Gas Plant District, after the black neighborhood that was razed decades ago to build the dome. They are also designing a plan that does not include a stadium. The 86-acre Trop site is set to be redeveloped, but city officials don’t know whether to include a new ballpark for the Rays. Mayor Rick Kriseman says plans can proceed while the stadium issue is undecided, but others are unsure if developers would be willing to go along. There is also a question of whether the Rays can impede construction under the lease agreement that keeps the team playing in the dome through 2027. [HKS Architects]")
![“Ginormica” weighs more than 200 pounds and is a little over 20 feet long.[Emerald Coast Zoo/Facebook]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719803/AR/0/AR-190719803.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "“Ginormica” weighs more than 200 pounds and is a little over 20 feet long.[Emerald Coast Zoo/Facebook]")
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![“Ginormica” weighs more than 200 pounds and is a little over 20 feet long.[Emerald Coast Zoo/Facebook]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719803/AR/0/0/AR-190719803.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "“Ginormica” weighs more than 200 pounds and is a little over 20 feet long.[Emerald Coast Zoo/Facebook]")
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![This rendering from New York’s HKS Architects shows what a redeveloped Tropicana Field site could look like if it includes a new baseball stadium. Planners are calling the project the Gas Plant District, after the black neighborhood that was razed decades ago to build the dome. They are also designing a plan that does not include a stadium. The 86-acre Trop site is set to be redeveloped, but city officials don’t know whether to include a new ballpark for the Rays. Mayor Rick Kriseman says plans can proceed while the stadium issue is undecided, but others are unsure if developers would be willing to go along. There is also a question of whether the Rays can impede construction under the lease agreement that keeps the team playing in the dome through 2027. [HKS Architects]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719812/AR/0/0/AR-190719812.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "This rendering from New York’s HKS Architects shows what a redeveloped Tropicana Field site could look like if it includes a new baseball stadium. Planners are calling the project the Gas Plant District, after the black neighborhood that was razed decades ago to build the dome. They are also designing a plan that does not include a stadium. The 86-acre Trop site is set to be redeveloped, but city officials don’t know whether to include a new ballpark for the Rays. Mayor Rick Kriseman says plans can proceed while the stadium issue is undecided, but others are unsure if developers would be willing to go along. There is also a question of whether the Rays can impede construction under the lease agreement that keeps the team playing in the dome through 2027. [HKS Architects]")
St. Petersburg’s future lies beneath Tropicana Field. Do the Rays stand in the way?
![Lashana Lynch in 'Captain Marvel.' The actor is said to be taking over the 007 codename in an upcoming James Bond film. [Walt Disney Studios]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159911/AR/0/0/AR-307159911.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Lashana Lynch in 'Captain Marvel.' The actor is said to be taking over the 007 codename in an upcoming James Bond film. [Walt Disney Studios]")
Lashana Lynch will be first black actor and woman to play 007 in new ‘Bond’
![Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins welcomes new teachers Monday during the Hillsborough Educator Institute at Chamberlain High in Tampa. More than 600 newly hired educators are coming from all across the country to teach in the nation's eighth-largest school district this year. [DIRK SHADD | Times]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159852/AR/0/0/AR-307159852.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Hillsborough County school superintendent Jeff Eakins welcomes new teachers Monday during the Hillsborough Educator Institute at Chamberlain High in Tampa. More than 600 newly hired educators are coming from all across the country to teach in the nation's eighth-largest school district this year. [DIRK SHADD | Times]")
The message for 600 new Hillsborough teachers: Know your students.
Post Malone coming to Amalie Arena in Tampa
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![From left, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos and Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier. [Photo illustration by Sean Kristoff-Jones]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190708/ARTICLE/307089925/AR/0/AR-307089925.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "From left, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos and Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier. [Photo illustration by Sean Kristoff-Jones]")
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![Part of the forgotten Zion Cemetery was on property now occupied by the sprawling Robles Park public housing project in Tampa. The Tampa Housing Authority, owners of the complex, said it would welcome a partnership with anyone interested in researching the grounds to determine what became of the African-American cemetery. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190623/ARTICLE/306239937/AR/0/AR-306239937.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Part of the forgotten Zion Cemetery was on property now occupied by the sprawling Robles Park public housing project in Tampa. The Tampa Housing Authority, owners of the complex, said it would welcome a partnership with anyone interested in researching the grounds to determine what became of the African-American cemetery. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]")
![From left, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft, and Florida Institute of Oceanography marine operations manager Rob Walker aboard the R/V W. T. Hogarth during a welcome ceremony for the research vessel at Bayboro Harbor. [Times (2017)]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190614/ARTICLE/190619736/AR/0/AR-190619736.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "From left, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft, and Florida Institute of Oceanography marine operations manager Rob Walker aboard the R/V W. T. Hogarth during a welcome ceremony for the research vessel at Bayboro Harbor. [Times (2017)]")
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![Clearwater police are looking for Gabriella Elisa Lora, 23, of Tampa, who was last seen Sunday night at Shepard’s Beach Resort, 619 S Gulfview Blvd. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call police at (727) 562-4242. [Clearwater Police Department]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719780/AR/0/AR-190719780.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Clearwater police are looking for Gabriella Elisa Lora, 23, of Tampa, who was last seen Sunday night at Shepard’s Beach Resort, 619 S Gulfview Blvd. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call police at (727) 562-4242. [Clearwater Police Department]")
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![FILE- This Dec. 28, 2010 photos shows a group of manatees in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Florida wildlife officials say 538 manatees were found dead in the state’s waterways in 2017. That’s the third-highest annual death toll on record for the large marine mammals. [Associated Press]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719802/AR/0/AR-190719802.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "FILE- This Dec. 28, 2010 photos shows a group of manatees in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Florida wildlife officials say 538 manatees were found dead in the state’s waterways in 2017. That’s the third-highest annual death toll on record for the large marine mammals. [Associated Press]")
Florida manatee deaths could reach record high
The ArtsXchange project in St. Petersburg continues to grow
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![The Yankees have done most of the celebrating lately when facing the Rays in New York. [SETH WENIG | Associated Press]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159853/AR/0/AR-307159853.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "The Yankees have done most of the celebrating lately when facing the Rays in New York. [SETH WENIG | Associated Press]")
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![Matt Garza threw the first, and thus far only, no-hitter in Rays history on July 26, 2010. [DIRK SHADD | Times (2010)]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159874/AR/0/AR-307159874.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Matt Garza threw the first, and thus far only, no-hitter in Rays history on July 26, 2010. [DIRK SHADD | Times (2010)]")
Where does Sunday rank among memorable Rays’ pitching performances?
![Bucs coach Bruce Arians: “We have one goal every year, and that’s to win the Lombardi Trophy.” [DIRK SHADD | Times]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/307159913/AR/0/AR-307159913.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Bucs coach Bruce Arians: “We have one goal every year, and that’s to win the Lombardi Trophy.” [DIRK SHADD | Times]")
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![Started as a tiny restaurant in Lutz, Rice n Beans recently reopened in larger digs as the latest addition to the Wesley Chapel dining scene. [MEAGHAN HABUDA | Times]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719790/AR/0/AR-190719790.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Started as a tiny restaurant in Lutz, Rice n Beans recently reopened in larger digs as the latest addition to the Wesley Chapel dining scene. [MEAGHAN HABUDA | Times]")
Tampa Bay restaurant and bar openings: The Big Catch starts luring St. Petersburg, Wesley Chapel welcomes Rice n Beans
Post Malone coming to Amalie Arena in Tampa
![In this 2018 photo, a bonnethead shark swims in a tank at the Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota. Mote will be among the other aquariums and shark scientists with SharkCon displays at Tampa’s Florida State Fairgrounds on Sunday. [SCOTT KEELER | Times (2018)]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190713/ARTICLE/190719943/AR/0/AR-190719943.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "In this 2018 photo, a bonnethead shark swims in a tank at the Mote Marine Aquarium in Sarasota. Mote will be among the other aquariums and shark scientists with SharkCon displays at Tampa’s Florida State Fairgrounds on Sunday. [SCOTT KEELER | Times (2018)]")
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![Want to get ready for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing? On Tuesday, check out the St. Petersburg Main Public Library, where NASA Solar System Ambassador Kathleen Blackett will talk about the Apollo missions. [Associated Press]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190715/ARTICLE/190719997/AR/0/AR-190719997.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Want to get ready for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing? On Tuesday, check out the St. Petersburg Main Public Library, where NASA Solar System Ambassador Kathleen Blackett will talk about the Apollo missions. [Associated Press]")
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![Universal Orlando recently opened its seventh hotel, Surfside Inn and Suites. It is the first phase of what will be called the Endless Summer Resort, the park’s first “value” category with rooms starting in the $100 range. The second phase will be the upcoming Dockside Inn and Suites, which will add another 2,050 rooms when it opens in two phases next year. [Universal Orlando]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190712/ARTICLE/190719868/AR/0/AR-190719868.jpg&MaxW=576&ImageVersion=Rotator "Universal Orlando recently opened its seventh hotel, Surfside Inn and Suites. It is the first phase of what will be called the Endless Summer Resort, the park’s first “value” category with rooms starting in the $100 range. The second phase will be the upcoming Dockside Inn and Suites, which will add another 2,050 rooms when it opens in two phases next year. [Universal Orlando]")
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