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  1. Pinellas deputies investigating if person’s death involved alligator
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Deputies with the Pinellas County Sherriff’s Office are investigating if a death near Largo involved an alligator. An aerial photo from Spectrum Bay News 9 shows officials gathered around a large alligator. Blood at the scene has been blurred out in this photo.
  2. Hillsborough schools data breach exposed information on over 250 students
    Yesterday• Education
    From Hillsborough County school district headquarters in downtown Tampa on Friday, officials said a recent data breach exposed protected information on dozens students.
  3. Man shot to death after confrontation in Tampa, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Tampa police detectives are asking the public for help identifying a man who is being sought in connection with a fatal shooting at the intersection of East Busch Boulevard and North Connechusett Road around 8:30 a.m. Friday. The shooter “is believed to be a white male of medium build between the ages of 30 to 40 years old,” police said.
  5. Part of Tyrone Square Mall sells for $37.8M
    Yesterday• Business
    Hitchcock's Green Market at Tyrone Square Mall on July 30, 2020, in St. Petersburg. The grocery store closed in 2022, and the space could soon become an Aldi's. Seritage Growth Properties sold its stake in the mall Thursday.
  6. Times journalist Lucy Morgan left lasting legacy of reporters she mentored
    Yesterday• News
    A severed telephone cable forced the New Port Richey bureau to set up shop in a nearby motel for several hours. Lucy Morgan (on phone) and Nancy Godfrey kept the makeshift newsroom operating while other staffers worked in the phoneless bureau.
  7. Amazon rolling out ads for Prime Video, will charge monthly fee to go ad-free
    Yesterday• Business
    Amazon's Prime Video streaming app on an iPad is seen in Baltimore on March 19, 2018. Amazon says that it will start charging $2.99 per month in order for users in the U.S. to watch Prime Video shows and movies ad-free starting in early 2024.
  8. Hillsborough County whacks fund for affordable housing amid crisis
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Hillsborough County Commissioner Donna Cameron Cepeda, who lived in subsidized housing before she was elected to the board last year, voted with a majority of commissioners to cut affordable housing spending this week and divert the money to other needs.
  9. DeSantis falls back into 2024 GOP pack, no longer clear second place to Trump
    Yesterday• Politics
    Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition's fall banquet, on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.
  10. Biden administration to ban medical debt from Americans’ credit scores
    Yesterday• Health
    Medical debt has sunk Penny Wingard’s credit score so low that she has struggled to qualify for loans, and applying for jobs and apartments has become a harrowing experience. On Sept. 21, the Biden administration announced plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores. (ANERI PATTANI/KFF HEALTH NEWS)
  11. How parking at Rays games could be affected during ballpark construction
    Yesterday• Business
    This rendering of the new Rays stadium shows the parking plan in place for opening day set for 2028.
  12. Dear Penny: Mom left me the house in her will. Do I owe my sister anything?
    Yesterday• Business
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  13. Six weeks in, Florida families, schools have yet to see voucher money
    Yesterday• Education
    Florida expanded its voucher program that helps families attend private schools this year. But many recipients say the state has not paid the first quarterly payment on time, pushing the survival of many small private schools to the brink.
  14. Florida leads the nation in school book bans. That should terrify us.
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Education commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. speaks as Gov. Ron DeSantis looks on during an event put on by the governor’s office at State Attorney's Office 13th Judicial Circuit in Tampa on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
  15. Tampa Bay’s trust fund cats captured hearts. How are they doing now?
    Yesterday• Pets
    Goldfinger sleeps on a couch at Kam Hearing's house. The cat previously belonged to Nancy Sauer, who left an inheritance for her seven Persians. She died in November and the cats have since been adopted by seven Tampa Bay families.
  16. A Tampa cybersecurity startup surged to become a global company
    Yesterday• Business
    "Cybersecurity is about reducing the complexity of things... There's data everywhere and there are events everywhere. It's just this sea of hay and you have to find that one needle," says Brian Murphy CEO & Founder, ReliaQuest.
  17. Corcoran, 2 others make their case to be New College’s next president
    Yesterday• Education
    Richard Corcoran, left, speaks with David Rancourt, the dean of students at New College of Florida, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 in Sarasota. The two were at a forum for faculty as part of the process to select the next president at New College, where Corcoran has served as interim president for six months. Corcoran is one of three candidates for the permanent job.
  18. Pinellas trolley driver attacked by stranger near St. Pete Pier, police said
    Yesterday• Crime
    A Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority driver was taken to an area hospital by ambulance after he was attacked by a man he didn’t know while getting onto his parked trolley at the end of his break shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, the St. Petersburg Police Department said Thursday. The driver, who was not named, suffered injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, the agency said.
  19. Attorneys for All Children’s make hospital’s case in ‘Maya’ lawsuit
    Yesterday• Health
    Maya, Kyle and Jack Kowalski leave the South Coutny Courthouse in Venice, Florida on Thursday afternoon at the conclusion of the first day of their civil lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.
  20. Florida families say school vouchers are unpaid, causing major disruption
    Yesterday• Education
    Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill to expand school vouchers across Florida during a news conference on March 27 in Miami. Six months later, many families say they have yet to get their first voucher installments paid, putting their children's education at risk.
  21. DeSantis offers paid maternity leave to state workers
    Yesterday• Politics
    Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition's fall banquet, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.
  22. Tropical storm warning issued for US East Coast ahead of potential cyclone, forecasters say
    Yesterday• Hurricane
    A disturbance that formed east of Florida's east coast Thursday has prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm warning from coastal North Carolina to Delaware as “Potential Tropical Cyclone Sixteen” heads toward the East Coast.
  23. Florida reacts to death of Times journalist Lucy Morgan
    Yesterday• Politics
    Lucy Morgan in 1981.
  24. PACE loses bid to operate again in Hillsborough County
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    An aerial view of Ruskin homes with solar panels purchased as part of the PACE loan program. [LUIS SANTANA | Times (2019)]
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