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  1. Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Web designer Lorie Smith is shown in her office on Nov. 7 in the southwest part of Littleton, Colo. The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving Smith, a Christian graphic artist, who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.
  2. Nick Fuentes gets into food fight at Los Angeles In-N-Out Burger
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Nick Fuentes, right-wing podcaster, speaks at a pro-Trump march in 2020, in Washington. Fuentes got into a food fight in Los Angeles Saturday after he generated controversy recently by attending dinner with Trump.
  3. Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, shown in this photo — an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism.
  5. FedEx driver arrested on murder charge after body of missing Texas girl found
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Tanner Lynn Horner. Horner, 31, was arrested Friday on kidnapping and murder charges after confessing to killing a 7-year-old Texas girl and telling authorities where to find her body, according to Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin.
  6. Iowa caucuses, built on myth, lose place at head of the line
    Yesterday• Politics
    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., celebrates with his supporters after his victory in the Iowa caucus in 2008. With the Democratic Party increasingly becoming a party of diversity, Iowa’s lack of it left the state without much of a rationale for leading the way.
  7. Questions emerge about Confederate monuments after banner flown over Jaguars game
    Yesterday• Florida
    A plane pulling a banner reading "Put Monuments Back" and flying a Confederate flag circles TIAA Bank Field before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 27 in Jacksonville.
  8. What happens to people who die at sea trying to migrate? It falls to the Florida Keys.
    Yesterday• Florida
    A U.S. Coast Guard boat approaches a sailing vessel packed with migrants off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, that law enforcement sources say are from Haiti last month.
  9. Meet the people looking to unseat Tampa Mayor Jane Castor
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor so far faces two little-known challengers as she seeks a second term.
  10. St. Petersburg man raped woman at gunpoint after offering her a lift, police say
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Cortiz Flowers, 23, was arrested after police said he raped a woman at gunpoint and committed a series of other violent crime around Pinellas County in recent weeks.
  11. Records show further Florida payments to company involved in migrant flights
    Yesterday• Politics
    A Venezuelan migrant is led onto a bus at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass on the island of Marthas Vineyard. Florida flew a group of 48 migrants to the island from Texas.
  12. Tampa’s police chief claims to live in the city — and also 40 minutes away
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Tampa Police Chief Mary O'Connor recently told a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop that she lives in Oldsmar. Tampa requires department heads, including the police chief, must live in city limits. A city spokeswoman says O'Connor also leases a condo in Tampa and lives in both places.
  13. Clearwater woman who threw ex’s pug off 7th floor balcony gets jail time
    Yesterday• Crime
    Shelley Vaughn, 47, was sentenced to 364 days in jail after pleading guilty to aggravated animal cruelty and criminal mischief.
  14. Compromise talks underway in Florida Legislature on Disney special district
    Yesterday• Politics
    Guests crowd Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
  15. Do golf carts need tags? What to know after Tampa police chief’s stop.
    Yesterday• Crime
    Golf carts cruise the streets at The Villages, Florida, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Golf carts must abide by certain rules depending on where they're operated.
  16. Why Andrew Warren might lose his lawsuit against DeSantis — and why he might not
    Yesterday• Politics
    Suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, in Tampa.
  17. Buchanan in hunt for coveted committee chairmanship in the U.S. House
    Yesterday• Politics
    U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla. is in the running for chairmanship of the powerful U.S. Ways and Means Committee. [CHRIS O'MEARA | Associated Press]
  18. Tampa police Chief Mary O’Connor placed on leave amid investigation into traffic stop
    Yesterday• Tampa
    A screenshot from video recorded by a Pinellas deputy's body camera on Nov. 12 shows Tampa police Chief Mary O'Connor and her husband, Keith, during a traffic stop. O'Connor identified herself as chief, pulled out her badge and asked the deputy to "just let us go" when told they'd been pulled over for not having a tag on the golf cart while he was driving on a public road.
  19. Accused of 2 Tampa murders, Steven Lorenzo says he wants death sentence
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Steven Lorenzo sits in court in 2017. Lorenzo has been awaiting a murder trial for five years on charges that he murdered Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholz in 2003 in his Seminole Heights home.
  20. Could a headstand lead team USA to a World Cup victory? We tried it out.
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Tampa Bay Times reporter Lauren Peace tests out a theory that a two-minute headstand could lead team USA to a World Cup victory at Puryear Park on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in St. Petersburg.
  21. Dirty Laundry, No Vacancy owner to open vintage cocktail lounge
    Yesterday• Business
    The Hunger Thirst Group also owns Dirty Laundry, where to enter the hidden bar, guests get a password from the pay phone in the cafe.
  22. 4 developers apply to redevelop St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    The city of St. Petersburg received four proposals by the Friday deadline to redevelop the area around Tropicana Field.
  23. Higher food prices worsen hunger crisis this holiday season
    Yesterday• Business
    Maria Correa, of Washington, center, who says she is sick with cancer, cannot work, and that things are especially difficult because of the pandemic, accepts a turkey and Thanksgiving trimmings during an annual Thanksgiving food giveaway at The Redeemed Christian Church of God New Wine Assembly, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Washington.
  24. US hiring stayed strong in November despite Fed rate hikes
    Yesterday• Business
    The economy added 263,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7%, still near a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday. November’s job growth dipped only slightly from October’s 284,000 gain.
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