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  1. Piney Point 2 years later: How close is it to shutting down for good?
    42 minutes ago• Environment
    Conditions have greatly improved at Piney Point, according to site operators, and site closure is underway. Crews work to pump water from New Gypsum Stack South where a leak formed two years ago, prompting an emergency water release and becoming an environmental disaster for Tampa Bay.
  2. Trump’s indictment in New York: Here’s what to know
    2 hours ago• Nation & World
    Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on his plane after a campaign rally at in Waco, Texas on March 25. Trump has become the first former U.S. president to be charged with a crime, the culmination of a political rise defined by unprecedented scandal.
  3. Dear Penny: Am I nuts to take out a mortgage on the home I just paid off?
    2 hours ago• Business
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  5. Hillsdale cuts off Florida charter school over nude ‘David’ lesson fracas
    3 hours ago• Education
    Tourists take photos in front of Michelangelo's "David statue" in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
  6. Tampa mural honors 5,000 women who protested fascism in 1937
    3 hours ago• History
    This mural was dedicated in Ybor City on Thursday, March 30, 2023, to remember the labor activists who participated in Ybor City’s 1937 women’s march against fascism.
  7. This St. Petersburg church is too political, IRS complaint says
    3 hours ago• St. Petersburg
    After the death of George Floyd following an encounter with Minneapolis police, Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg changed its sign to protest racial inequality. On one side: "George Floyd was lynched today by the police. We can't breathe!" On the other: "White supremacy: The most dangerous virus infecting our country since 1492."
  8. Hillsborough group’s arrest reform push exposes rift with sheriff
    3 hours ago• Hillsborough
    A Tampa police officer speaks to a driver pulled over for speeding along Bayshore Boulevard in 2018. A push by local activists to add some driver license offenses to Hillsborough County's Adult Pre-Arrest Diversion program, known as APAD, has received a noncommittal response from Sheriff Chad Chronister.
  9. What is ahead in the legal fight between DeSantis and Disney?
    Earlier today• Politics
    Reedy Creek Improvement District Fire Department Station 4, on Dec. 8, 2021.
  10. What to know about Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney
    Yesterday• News
    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg participates in a news conference in New York, Feb. 7, 2023. Bragg’s decision to convene the grand jury early this year led to the first criminal charge against a former U.S. president.
  11. Here are key figures in the Donald Trump indictment
    Yesterday• Politics
    Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was paid to keep quiet about what she says was an awkward and unexpected 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump.
  12. Here’s what the Trump indictment arrest process could look like
    Yesterday• Politics
    Former President Donald Trump walks to board his airplane for a trip to a campaign rally in Texas.
  13. DeSantis says Florida will ‘not assist’ in possible Trump extradition after indictment
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd at Adventure Outdoors gun store, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Smyrna, Georgia.
  14. Trump legal worries extend far beyond New York charges
    Yesterday• Politics
    The hush money case in New York that has led to criminal charges against Donald Trump is just one of a number of investigations that could pose legal problems for the former president.
  15. Updates: President Trump indicted in Manhattan in porn star case
    Yesterday• Politics
    FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday, March 30, that he's been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
  16. Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime in US history
    Yesterday• News
    A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday he’s been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
  17. St. Petersburg woman found dead, toddler son missing, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    St. Petersburg police say Pashun Jeffery, 20, left, was found dead in her St. Petersburg apartment and her two-year-old son Taylen Mosley is missing Thursday afternoon.
  18. Florida death penalty requirement could soon be 8 out of 12 jury votes
    Yesterday• Politics
    A thunderstorm moves over Florida's Death Row at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford in 2018.
  19. St. Petersburg tall ship parade sails into waterfront this weekend
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    A fleet of historic vessels sailing in Tampa Bay from the St. Pete Pier on Thursday.
  20. ‘Human trafficking’: Florida grand jury blasts federal immigration policy
    Yesterday• Politics
    Migrant children play soccer inside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida on April 19, 2019. The shelter is no longer open in Homestead.
  21. US health insurers don’t have to cover vaccines, preventative screenings, judge rules
    Yesterday• Health
    The healthcare.gov website is seen on Dec. 14, 2021, in Fort Washington, Md. A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation's health law Thursday in a decision that opponents say could jeopardize preventive screenings for millions of Americans.
  22. Hillsborough tourism up 27% over 2022
    Yesterday• Business
    The Hillsborough County Sportsplex will be the beneficiary of a recommended budget boost from the Hillsborough Tourist Development Council, which agreed to set aside $500,000 each of the next two years for the complex.
  23. Rays open their 26th MLB season against the Tigers
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Rays' Jose Siri connects for a solo homer in the third inning against the Detroit Tigers Thursday in St. Petersburg.
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  24. Why 900,000 in Florida are about to lose Medicaid
    Yesterday• Health
    Health care advocates are warning that close to a million Floridians could lose health insurance when the state in April begins a review of the eligibility of almost 5 million Medicaid recipients.
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