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  1. CDC lifts quarantine requirement as Florida COVID cases drop
    Earlier today• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  2. Tampa driver arrested after hitting, killing 18-year-old woman, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Arnold Perry, 63, was driving a 2005 Honda Pilot on Rowlett Park Drive, just north of Sligh Avenue, when he struck an 18-year-old woman late Thursday night and left the scene, according to the Tampa Police Department.
  3. St. Petersburg mayor rejects Moffitt cancer project over affordable housing
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    The entrance to Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa.
  5. Congress passes Democrats’ climate and health care bill, a triumph for Biden
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finishes the vote to approve the Inflation Reduction Act in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats' flagship climate and health care bill.
  6. 2 teen drivers arrested in Tampa street racing crash that killed boy, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Austin Lewis, 17, and Kristopher Trenker, 19, were arrested Wednesday on charges related to a crash that occurred July 24. Tampa police said the two were participating in an illegal street race when Lewis crashed his vehicle, killing a 16-year-old passenger.
  7. Pinellas teachers walk out of pay talks in anger, citing 3.25% raise offer
    Yesterday• Education
    Nancy Velardi, center, president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, criticizes the Pinellas County school district's pay offer for 2022-23 after union members walked out of contract talks on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2020.
  8. St. Petersburg woman has called police more than 11,000 times this year, police say
    Yesterday• News
    Police arrested a woman they said called the agency's emergency call center more than 11,000 times this year.
  9. DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw moves to join his campaign staff
    Yesterday• Politics
    Christina Pushaw listens during a news conference on Aug. 18, 2021, in Pembroke Pines.
  10. FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    The notice filed by the Justice Department to the U.S. District Court South District of Florida informing the judge that lawyers for former President Donald Trump did not object to the government's motion to unseal the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is photographed Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
  11. Wells Fargo Center in downtown Tampa sold for $120 million
    Yesterday• Business
    Downtown Tampa's Wells Fargo Center, at center, has been sold to New York real estate investment group the Feil Organization for an undisclosed sum.
  12. Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y.
  13. Tampa Seminole Hard Rock gambler robbed after openly celebrating $53K in winnings
    Yesterday• Crime
    A gambler who openly celebrated winning $53,000 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa, shown in this 2021 photo, was followed back to his hotel and robbed, according to a search warrant application.
  14. Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating
    Yesterday• Health
    This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a poliovirus particle. The poliovirus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.
  15. Seminole Tribe of Florida gives $1 million to DeSantis political committee
    Yesterday• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis and Marcellus Osceola, Jr., chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, pose for a photo at a signing ceremony on Friday, April 23, 2021.
  16. For a redrawn St. Petersburg, East Hillsborough House seat, a Democratic melee
    Yesterday• Elections
    Rep. Michele Rayner (D - St. Petersburg), her Florida House District 70 predecessor Wengay Newton (top right) and political newcomer Jesse Philippe are in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary for the redrawn House District 62 seat that spans from south St. Petersburg to East Tampa, Gibsonton and Riverview.
  17. Hillsborough’s sheriff and state attorney seemed in sync. What happened?
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister, left, and Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren have worked toward criminal justice reform, supported each other's campaigns and called each other friends, but Chronister said he has long had concerns about Warren's philosophy and prosecutorial decisions, which the sheriff said prompted him to support Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to remove Warren from office.
  18. How to cast your ballot early for Tampa Bay’s primary elections
    Yesterday• Politics
    Owen, 13, Braelyn, 9, and Lori Kerrigan, 44, hold signs outside Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library during early voting on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, in Tampa.
  19. The hits keep coming in Hillsborough County judicial race
    Yesterday• Elections
    Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge Jared Smith (left) is facing a challenge from Nancy Jacobs.
  20. This is why gas prices are falling
    Yesterday• Business
    The price of regular unleaded gas is advertised for just under $4 a gallon at a Woodman's, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Menomonie Falls, Wis. Falling gas prices gave Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though the surge in overall prices slowed only modestly from the four-decade high it reached in June.
  21. What Tampa Bay Republicans running for Congress are saying about the 2020 election
    Yesterday• Politics
    Pallets with 355,000 vote-by-mail ballots loaded onto trucks by Hillsborough election officials to be delivered to the post office, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Tampa.
  22. House Dems set to overcome GOP for climate, health care win
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington in June. A flagship Democratic economic bill perched on the edge of House passage Friday, placing President Joe Biden on the brink of a back-from-the-dead triumph on goals for the climate, health care and taxes.
  23. Trump calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Former President Donald Trump gestures as he departs Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation.
  24. Anne Heche on life support, survival of crash ‘not expected’
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Anne Heche arrives at the premiere of "The Tender Bar" in December at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Heche is on life support and not expected to survive injuries from a car crash last week.
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