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  1. Trump draws heat for Mar-a-Lago dinner with white nationalist, rapper Ye
    Earlier today• News
    Far-right activist Nick Fuentes holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol in Lansing, Mich. on Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and white supremacist rhetoric.
  2. Hillsborough County detention deputy arrested for DUI
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Hillsborough County detention deputy Brian Nguyen was driving northbound on I-275 when he was stopped by the Florida Highway Patrol for driving under the influence, according to a media release.
  3. County political chief seats in play on both sides of bay
    Yesterday• Politics
    Jim Waurishuk, chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican Party. [Times (2016)]
  5. Voter fraud units pushed by GOP leaders are finding few cases to investigate
    Yesterday• Latest News
    Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference in Fort Lauderdale on Aug. 18, 2022, when he announced voter fraud arrests across the state.
  6. Pinellas judges uphold Tarpon Springs’ approval of Anclote River apartments
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Renderings of the proposed Anclote Harbor Apartments are seen in this image taken from video. A three-judge panel has upheld the city's 2021 approval of the project amid a legal challenge from Concerned Citizens of Tarpon Springs.
  7. NASA’s Orion capsule enters far-flung orbit around moon
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    This image provided by NASA shows flight Day 9 imagery that NASA's Orion spacecraft captured looking back at the Earth from a camera mounted on one of its solar arrays. NASA's Orion capsule is now circling the moon in an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles. The capsule and its three test dummies entered the far-flung orbit Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, more than a week after launching on the test flight.
  8. St. Petersburg man left woman with hatchet in head, fled to Gainesville, deputies say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Michael Dougherty, 40, was arrested on an attempted second-degree murder charge after deputies said he left a woman with a hatchet in her head in St. Petersburg and fled to Gainesville.
  9. Emboldened Biden, Dems push ban on so-called assault weapons
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    In this July 18 photo, semi-automatic rifles are displayed at Coastal Trading and Pawn in Auburn, Maine. President Joe Biden and the Democrats have become increasingly emboldened in pushing for stronger gun control. The Democratic-led House passed legislation in July to revive a 1990s-era ban on certain semi-automatic guns, with Biden’s vocal support. And the president pushed the weapons ban nearly everywhere that he campaigned this year.
  10. Could these antiviral pills treat long COVID?
    Yesterday• Health
    Could Paxlovid solve one of the pandemic’s biggest puzzles? A new study at Stanford University aims to find out.
  11. Pinellas beaches man accused in fraud, murder-for-hire case pleads guilty
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Alexander Leszczynski, 24, of North Redington Shores, pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, as well as murder-for-hire and obstruction of justice.
  12. Dunedin woman dies after Thanksgiving fire despite neighbor’s dramatic rescue
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    A Pinellas County Sheriff's Office deputy walks past an apartment on Lakeview Lane in Dunedin that caught fire on Thursday. A neighbor pulled 82-year-old Patricia Mitchell from the burning unit. She later died at the hospital.
  13. What led to a fatal shooting under a Tampa overpass?
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    Tampa police said Timothy McGovern admitted to shooting Nabil Sarah under the overpass at Hillsborough Avenue and Dale Mabry Highway on Nov. 6. Sarah, who was homeless, died on the sidewalk where he often slept. McGovern was arrested on a first degree murder charge.
  14. Thousands of Florida’s ‘nuisance alligators’ are killed each year. Is it necessary?
    Yesterday• Environment
    Alligator trapper Phil Walters (standing) and a colleague remove an alligator from the Hillsborough River at Water Works Park in Tampa earlier this month.
  15. Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes
    Yesterday• Business
    A Netflix DVD envelope is shown on Nov. 17, 2022 in San Francisco. Subscribers to Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service still look forward to opening up their mailbox and finding one of the discs delivered in the familiar red-and-white envelopes.
  16. Musk plans to relaunch Twitter premium service with 3 kinds of check marks
    Yesterday• News
    Twitter headquarters stands on 10th Street on Nov. 4, 2022, in San Francisco.
  17. Drunk driver going wrong way on I-75 in Georgia kills Florida woman and child, 5
    Yesterday• Florida
    Three people, including a Florida woman and a 5-year-old child, have died after an interstate crash in central Georgia.
  18. Black Friday isn’t what it used to be, but some shoppers still wake early
    Yesterday• News
    Shoppers braving the crowds to take advantage of Black Friday sales are seen at the Westfield Brandon mall on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022 in Brandon.
  19. Tampa terrorism case sees sparring over classified info, searches
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Federal prosecutors accused Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari of plotting an attack in support of ISIS. His attorneys have challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, and criticized the steps investigators took.
  20. $740M in crypto assets recovered in FTX bankruptcy so far
    Yesterday• Business
    The FTX Arena name is still visible where the Miami Heat basketball team plays Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in Miami. Lawyers for FTX disclosed Tuesday that a “substantial amount" of assets have been stolen from the accounts of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, diminishing the odds that its millions of investors will get their money back.
  21. Owner of Colorado gay club: Shooting comes amid a new ‘type of hate’
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Nic Grzecka, right, co-owner of Club Q, hugs a supporter on Wednesday after a 25-foot historic pride flag was unfurled to cover the exterior of City Hall in Colorado Springs, Co., to mark the weekend mass shooting at the gay nightclub. Grzecka said he thinks the shooting that killed five people and injured 17 others is a reflection of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved from prejudice to incitement.
  22. Dear Penny: Will my wife’s reckless spending ruin my retirement plan?
    Yesterday• Business
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  23. Drive I-275? You could earn $190 to participate in USF carpool study
    Yesterday• Transportation
    An aerial view looking south on Interstate 275 towards Interstate 4 and downtown Tampa from just south of the Hillsborough Avenue exit in Tampa on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 in Tampa.
  24. Clearwater taps Baltimore official to manage downtown revitalization
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    Jaye Matthews will begin as Clearwater's Community Redevelopment Agency Director on Dec. 5 after serving as an operations officer with Baltimore's housing department since 2019.
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