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  1. Pasco School Board scales back 10:10 a.m. start times
    2 hours ago• Education
    A Pasco County Schools bus driver negotiates a turn while at the South Compound April 1, 2022 in Odessa. The school district has attempted several initiatives to get students to classes on time while coping with a bus driver shortage.
  2. Condo, townhome project approved in Clearwater’s North Marina Area
    4 hours ago• Clearwater
    The site of the 60-unit residential project approved by the Clearwater Community Development Board on May 17, 2022, is seen from the south end at the corner of Cedar Street and Blanche B Littlejohn Trail. The Pinellas Trail is to the east, beyond the guardrail at far right.
  3. USF joins with Aramark, Mainsail to offer training for hospitality students
    4 hours ago• Education
    USF business college dean Moez Limayem, center, signs agreements on May 17, 2022, with leaders of Aramark and Mainsail Lodging and Development to provide training for USF hospitality school students. At left is Julianne Corlew, vice president and business partner of Mainsail. At right is David Vandenberg, regional vice president of Aramark.
  5. DeSantis: Florida cancer hospitals get $100 million for research
    5 hours ago• Health
    Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis, a breast cancer survivor, speaks about her diagnosis and treatment during a news conference Tuesday at the Don Soffer Clinical Research Center at the University of Miami. Gov. DeSantis announced the new state budget will contain $100 million for cancer research and treatments at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at UM, Tampa’s H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, and the University of Florida Health System’s Shands Cancer Hospital in Gainesville.
  6. Partnership expands Hillsborough mental health services
    5 hours ago• Health
    Carrie Zeisse, CEO and president of Tampa Bay Thrives, a mental wellness nonprofit, talks Tuesday about a partnership with hospitals and other agencies to help bridge the gap between calling for help and getting therapy. They want to make mental health services available within days for those identified as urgent cases.
  7. Pasco administrator Dan Biles tenders his resignation
    5 hours ago• Pasco
    Pasco County Administrator Dan Biles announces his resignation after five years on the job.
  8. U.S. Rep. Gaetz associate receives another sentencing delay
    Yesterday• Crime
    In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg talks to the Orlando Sentinel during an interview at his office in Lake Mary. A judge has approved yet another sentencing delay for the former Florida tax collector who was a close associate of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz. U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell said in an order Monday that a sealed status report filed by prosecutors justifies postponing the sentencing of Joel Greenberg until August. Greenberg has been cooperating in an ongoing investigation of allegations that Gaetz paid a 17-year-old girl for sex. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and claims the allegations are an extortion plot.
  9. The U.S. Postal Service is offering more free COVID tests by mail
    Yesterday• Health
    Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a Dec. 30, 2021 distribution event. The U.S. government is offering another round of free at-home COVID-19 test kits to the country. Order online from the U.S. Postal Service via www.covid.gov/tests.
  10. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Yesterday• Pets
    Chester and Reina are two of many animals hoping to find loving homes.
  11. Body found in garage of St. Petersburg home, police say
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    The body of a man was found in the garage of a home located at 3410 38th St. N. in St. Petersburg around 1:20 Tuesday, according to police. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
  12. St. Pete’s last all-Black class, split by integration, stayed connected
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    Members of the "Classes of 1970" in St. Petersburg pose for a group photo during a reunion on May 14, 2022, at the Club at Treasure Island. Attendees recalled being uprooted from all-Black Gibbs High during the 1969-70 school year and sent to predominantly white schools as part of a desegregation plan imposed on the Pinellas County school district.
  13. Ex-U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to plead guilty in charity and tax fraud case
    Yesterday• Crime
    In this May 5, 2017, photo, former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown walks to the federal courthouse in Jacksonville. Court documents show Brown, whose initial conviction in a charity fraud case was tossed out by an appeals court, will plead guilty before a second trial.
  14. Fired COVID-19 vaccine vendor sues Hillsborough, seeks $50 million
    Yesterday• Business
    OnSite nurse Joan Diehl prepares COVID-19 vaccinations at the Strawberry Festival Fairgrounds, one of the vaccination distribution sites in Hillsborough County, in Plant City on Jan. 6, 2021. The county announced the same day it had fired OnSite after residents complained about the scheduling system. The company is now suing Hillsborough County for $50 million, contending it was illegally terminated.
  15. The St. Pete Pier has been recognized by the Urban Land Institute
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    The St. Pete Pier at night.
  16. Walmart’s first quarter profits hampered by inflation
    Yesterday• Business
    Walmart reported stronger sales for the fiscal first quarter, but its profits took a beating as the nation’s largest retailer grappled with surging inflation on food and fuel and higher costs from a still snarled global supply chain.
  17. Port to explore opening cruise ship terminal by Tampa’s Riverwalk to the public
    Yesterday• Environment
    A gate secures the waterfront side of Port Tampa Bay's cruise ship Terminal 2, which is used by cruise ships about 30 days a year. Downtown boosters hope to see it open to the public when not in use.
  18. Plans filed for 54-story downtown Tampa tower, region’s tallest skyscraper
    Yesterday• Business
    This rendering shows a design for One Tampa, a proposed 633-foot, 311-unit residential tower at 507 N Ashley Drive that would be the tallest skyscraper on Florida's Gulf Coast.
  19. Judge lifts stay from ruling on Florida’s congressional map
    Yesterday• Politics
    State Sen. Kelli Stargel looks through redistricting maps during a Senate Committee on Reapportionment hearing on Jan. 13, 2022, in Tallahassee.
  20. Ex-Florida elections chief Laurel Lee launches bid for Tampa Bay-area congressional seat
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee speaks at a news conference on Oct. 29, 2019, in Tallahassee. Lee is running for Congressional District 15.
  21. Florida man lost $5,800 on a St. Petersburg bus. Strangers stepped in.
    Yesterday• Narratives
    An unidentified rider of Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority's Route 18 turns in Raymond Krug's belongings to the bus driver. Krug wished he knew who the woman was, so he could thank her. “There are still a few good people out there,” he said.
  22. Pasco sheriff and county work on details of jail transition and budget
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco, shown here inside the county detention center in Land O'Lakes in 2014.
  23. U.S. traffic deaths surged to highest number in 16 years in 2021
    Yesterday• Transportation
    The scene of a fatality car crash in June 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years.
  24. Florida Democrats want hearings on DeSantis’ elections pick next week
    Yesterday• Politics
    State Rep. Cord Byrd, R-Neptune Beach, is Gov. Ron DeSantis' pick to be Florida's secretary of state.
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