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  1. Man sought in fatal New York shooting arrested at St. Pete Beach
    5 hours ago• Pinellas
    A deputy saw Joseph Scalafani at a bus stop in St. Pete Beach, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. The agency had been asked to look out for the man wanted for murder by the Suffolk County Police Department.
  2. Florida judge should be reprimanded for conduct during Parkland school shooting trial, report says
    Yesterday• Crime
    Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentences Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Nov. 2, 2022. Cruz was formally sentenced to life in prison for murdering 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. A state commission concluded Monday that Scherer, should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz's attorneys by the victims' families and sometimes “allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement.”
  3. Clearwater’s Drew Street project could face more delays with new study
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    Drivers negotiate Drew Street in Clearwater, where the state is planning an overhaul that will eliminate a travel lane and add a center turn lane on portion of the road to address safety concerns. But business leaders and some city officials have questions about how the project will affect traffic flow.
  5. Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges over DeSantis migrant flights
    Yesterday• Politics
    Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar is photographed on Tuesday, October 5, 2022, at the sheriff’s office while leading a team in a criminal investigation regarding the Martha’s Vineyard flights. So often approached by labor hunters and a stealth network of transporters who promises transportation, jobs, and a better life in America's so-called "Sanctuary Cities," decisions to leave or stay become challenging and sometimes illusionary.
  6. Florida neighbor feud over playing children ends with mom shot dead, sheriff says
    Yesterday• Crime
    In this still image from a video broadcast by the Marion County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Billy Woods speaks at a news conference in Ocala on Monday. Officials say a neighborhood feud over playing children has ended in a Florida mother’s fatal shooting.
  7. Tampa cop resigns amid investigation of political player with sex offender past
    Yesterday• Tampa
    The Tampa Police Department's downtown headquarter is seen in 2022. A Tampa police officer resigned last month after an internal investigation found that he knew as early as 2021 that a local political player known as Giovanni “Gio” Fucarino was a convicted sex offender named John Ring Jr., but didn’t tell anyone what he knew and was untruthful when investigators asked him about it later, records show.
  8. DeSantis so far quiet about migrant flights to California
    Yesterday• Politics
    The offices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento are seen in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2023. Sixteen migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were brought to the diocese's offices on Friday, June 2, 2023, after being flown from Texas to Sacramento.
  9. Clearwater may allow police, fire chiefs to collect salary and retirement upon return
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    Former Clearwater deputy police chief Eric Gandy is being considered as the agency's next police chief.
  10. California officials say Florida arranged travel of 2 migrant flights
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    California Attorney General Rob Bonta, shown in a file photo, said the state of Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be dropped off outside a Sacramento church.
  11. Florida, other states sue over flood insurance changes that raise rates for many
    Yesterday• Business
    Flood waters surround storm-damaged homes on Aug. 31, 2021, in Lafourche Parish, La., as residents try to recover from the effects of Hurricane Ida. Louisiana and nine other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday, June 1, 2023, to block sharp impending national flood insurance rate increases slated to be phased in over the coming years.
  12. Is Outlook down? Thousands of users report problems with email
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning.
  13. 2 killed in Hillsborough crash after man drives through red light
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Two people were killed after a crash in Hillsborough County on Sunday night that occurred after a man drove through a red light, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
  14. Former VP Pence files paperwork for 2024 presidential bid in challenge to Trump
    Yesterday• Politics
    Former Vice President Mike Pence stands on stage with U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, during her Roast and Ride, Saturday, June 3, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Pence on Monday filed paperwork to run for president.
  15. Luke Combs adds second Tampa concert to his world tour
    Yesterday• Music News
    Country artist Luke Combs performs at the 2022 CMA Music Festival in downtown Nashville, Tenn.
  16. Plane that crashed after DC fighter jet scramble registered to Florida company
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Va., on Sunday.
  17. Man who drowned near Pine Key Island remembered by family
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Isaac McNair, 26, is being remembered by his family after he drowned near Pine Key Island on May 28.
  18. Superintendent turnover creates ‘brain drain’ for Florida schools
    Yesterday• Education
    Duval County superintendent Diana Greene is among the many Florida school district leaders to depart since November under scrutiny or pressure from the school board.
  19. 6-story condo in New Port Richey to replace aging hotel
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Artist rendering of the condominium and hotel development planned on the south west corner of U.S. 19 and Marine Parkway in New Port Richey.
  20. In Tampa, drag shows date back 125 years
    Yesterday• History
    John Lind, once among the world’s most renowned female impersonators, performed in Tampa in 1917.
  21. Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to health care
    Yesterday• Health
    Eli cuddles his dog on the couch at his home in Casselberry, Fla., May 29, 2023. Eli and his fiancé Lucas, both transgender men, plan to move to Minnesota with their dog and two cats later this year. The Associated Press is not using Eli’s and Lucas’ last names because they fear reprisal. Minnesota is among the states this year that have codified protections for transgender people in response to sweeping anti-LGBTQ legislation in mostly Republican-led states. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)
  22. Police investigating homicide in Northeast Tampa
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Officers were dispatched to the 6700 block of Woodville Street at around 5:45 p.m. to the report of a shooting in the River Oaks apartment complex, the department said in a news release.
  23. How pay back student loans when pandemic payment freeze ends
    June 3• Nation & World
    Harvard University students celebrate their graduate degrees in public health during Harvard commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. A pause on student loan payments that's been in place since the start of the COVID pandemic will end late this summer.
  24. Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls US back from brink of default
    June 3• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden addresses the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, June 2, 2023, in Washington, D.C..
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