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  1. Boy shot at St. Petersburg home, police say
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
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  2. St. Petersburg man, woman arrested in death of girl, 3, thrown against wall
    Yesterday• Crime
    Monica Williams, 33, and Daquan Marquel Lindsey, 25, are charged with murder in the first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 3-year-old girl in St. Petersburg.
  3. Tampa woman faces manslaughter charge after shooting boyfriend and leaving him
    Yesterday• Crime
    Cicelia Thomas has been arrested on multiple charges, including manslaughter, in connection with the fatal shooting of her boyfriend.
  5. Remembering Hurricane Charley’s destruction, 18 years ago today
    Yesterday• Florida
    Sandy Agabedis reacts as she finds her business of 10 years, The Blossom Shop, destroyed after Hurricane Charley tore through downtown Punta Gorda on Aug. 13, 2004.
  6. Three Republicans running in contentious House District 59 primary
    Yesterday• Elections
    Jennifer Wilson, Berny Jacques and Dipak Nadkarni are the Republican candidates for House District 59.
  7. A Florida woman’s dog went missing after car crash. A community came together to find him.
    Yesterday• Florida
    Goofuss, a Florida woman's chihuahua who went missing after a car crash in rural South Carolina, was found days later and returned to his owner.
  8. Exactly 31 years after attack, Florida rapist sentenced to life in prison
    Yesterday• Crime
    A Miami-Dade judge on Friday sentenced Robert McCartney, 54, to life in prison after a jury needed just a half-hour to convict him of a rape charge.
  9. Armed gunman in FBI Cincinnati attack has ties to Tampa Bay
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    In this image taken from FOX19 Cincinnati video, FBI officials gather outside the FBI building in Cincinnati, Thursday. An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at the FBI field office.
  10. Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Blood stains mark a screen as author Salman Rushdie, behind screen, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture on Friday.
  11. If you donate to this Tampa state Senate candidate, beware the checked box
    Yesterday• Elections
    An email fundraising campaign by Tampa Republican state Senate hopeful Jay Collins comes with a prechecked box that makes donations recurring.
  12. Florida scallop season is here, so we went on the hunt
    Yesterday• Travel
    Lucas Ebert holds up a freshly gathered scallop while on a chartered boat trip with tourists, Aug. 8, 2022 in Crystal River.
  13. Rainwater set to be released from Piney Point this weekend, state says
    Yesterday• Environment
    Water filled a reservoir at the old Piney Point fertilizer plant site in Manatee County earlier this year. A leak triggered a crisis in 2021, and crews dumped 215 million gallons of wastewater from Piney Point into Tampa Bay.
  14. CDC lifts quarantine requirement as Florida COVID cases drop
    Yesterday• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  15. Tampa driver arrested after hitting, killing 18-year-old woman, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Arnold Perry, 63, was driving a 2005 Honda Pilot on Rowlett Park Drive, just north of Sligh Avenue, when he struck an 18-year-old woman late Thursday night and left the scene, according to the Tampa Police Department.
  16. St. Petersburg mayor rejects Moffitt cancer project over affordable housing
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    The entrance to Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa.
  17. Congress passes Democrats’ climate and health care bill, a triumph for Biden
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finishes the vote to approve the Inflation Reduction Act in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats' flagship climate and health care bill.
  18. 2 teen drivers arrested in Tampa street racing crash that killed boy, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Austin Lewis, 17, and Kristopher Trenker, 19, were arrested Wednesday on charges related to a crash that occurred July 24. Tampa police said the two were participating in an illegal street race when Lewis crashed his vehicle, killing a 16-year-old passenger.
  19. Pinellas teachers walk out of pay talks in anger, citing 3.25% raise offer
    Yesterday• Education
    Nancy Velardi, center, president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, criticizes the Pinellas County school district's pay offer for 2022-23 after union members walked out of contract talks on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2020.
  20. St. Petersburg woman has called police more than 11,000 times this year, police say
    Yesterday• News
    Police arrested a woman they said called the agency's emergency call center more than 11,000 times this year.
  21. DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw moves to join his campaign staff
    Yesterday• Politics
    Christina Pushaw listens during a news conference on Aug. 18, 2021, in Pembroke Pines.
  22. FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    The notice filed by the Justice Department to the U.S. District Court South District of Florida informing the judge that lawyers for former President Donald Trump did not object to the government's motion to unseal the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is photographed Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
  23. Wells Fargo Center in downtown Tampa sold for $120 million
    Yesterday• Business
    Downtown Tampa's Wells Fargo Center, at center, has been sold to New York real estate investment group the Feil Organization for an undisclosed sum.
  24. Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture Friday at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y.
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