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  1. St. Petersburg’s Deveron Gibbons named to FAMU board of trustees
    1 hour ago• Education
    Deveron Gibbons makes a point at a St. Petersburg College board of trustees meeting in 2017 during a discussion about presidential candidates for the school. He was named a trustee of Florida A&M University on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
  2. Post-tenure review regulation for Florida university professors approved
    1 hour ago• Education
    The University of South Florida on March 23, 2023, in Tampa.
  3. Florida utility bills could rise to pay for new natural gas technology
    2 hours ago• Politics
    A burner on a stove emits blue flames from natural gas. A Florida bill would create incentives for the development of renewable natural gas.
  5. Missing Largo lawyer case records show $300K cash found in doc’s car
    3 hours ago• Crime
    Tomasz Kosowski, a local plastic surgeon arrested in the death of missing Largo attorney Steven Cozzi, makes his first appearance in court from the Pinellas County Jail on Monday.
  6. Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue to send most animals to Arkansas
    3 hours ago• Hillsborough
    Carole Baskin with Dutchess the tiger at Big Cat Rescue in 2020. Baskin's husband, Howard Baskin, announced Monday that most of the famed sanctuary's cats will be moved to Arkansas this year, with an eventual goal of closing and selling the Tampa facility.
  7. Disney stripped power of board before DeSantis takeover, new board says
    3 hours ago• Politics
    The entrance to the headquarters of what was then called the Reedy Creek Improvement District in Lake Buena Vista, on Jan. 25, 2023. Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida legislators renamed the special district and gave DeSantis the power to appoint the board’s members.
  8. Anna Paulina Luna asks for lesser sentence for convicted Tampa Bay Jan. 6 protester
    4 hours ago• Politics
    Jeremy Brown outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to federal prosecutors.
  9. Florida manatee starvation deaths decline as feeding ends
    5 hours ago• Environment
    A group of Florida manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale in 2010. Manatee deaths have declined this year.
  10. Here’s why Florida’s home insurance hotline is only open 3 hours a day
    6 hours ago• Politics
    Aerial photos on March 1, 2023, show damage to homes still remain in Fort Myers after Hurricane Ian.
  11. Judge stepping down from Florida Supreme Court becoming Citizens general counsel
    Earlier today• Politics
    Florida Supreme Court Justice Ricky Polston is resigning and will soon become general counsel for Citizens Property Insurance.
  12. Hillsborough teachers get a win in their months-long dispute over pay
    Earlier today• Education
    Contract bargaining between the Hillsborough County School District and the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022.
  13. DeSantis would get this nearly unprecedented new power under Florida bill
    Earlier today• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis would have more authority over the Florida high school sports under a proposed bill in the legislature.
  14. 2 DeSantis election fraud cases end with guilty pleas in Hillsborough
    Earlier today• Elections
    Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference last year at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, where he announced voter fraud arrests across the state.
  15. DeSantis signs $711 million affordable housing plan
    Earlier today• Politics
    “As demand is high to move to a place like Florida, it makes it more challenging for folks to be able to afford,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a bill-signing event Wednesday in Naples. “I think this is the biggest effort that’s ever been done in the history of Florida.”
  16. Over-the-counter Narcan approved by FDA. Here’s what it means.
    Earlier today• Health
    Narcan, the overdose-reversal drug, has been approved by the FDA to be sold over the counter.
  17. 2 Tampa Bay Ben & Jerry’s locations are giving away free ice cream
    Earlier today• Food
    Get a free scoop of Ben and Jerry's ice cream from noon to 8 p.m. April 3.
  18. Residents of historically Black Florida town sue to stop land sale
    Earlier today• Business
    Eatonville is perhaps best known through the work of Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston.
  19. Jack Harris, longtime Tampa radio personality, says he has been fired
    Earlier today• Life & Culture
    “Just tell them that they have been great to me over the years,” longtime Tampa Bay radio personality Jack Harris said of his fans. “They are what I will miss most.”
  20. Florida school districts respond to parent book complaints
    Earlier today• Education
    Hillsborough County Public Schools holds a hearing on the text ‘This Book is Gay’ is seen Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Tampa.
  21. Parking in St. Petersburg likely to get easier, thanks to the Rays
    Earlier today• St. Petersburg
    The Rays and the city of St. Petersburg have an agreement to allow the public to park on six lots surrounding Tropicana Field on nongame days.
  22. How one Florida woman broke into the male-dominated world of construction
    Earlier today• Real Estate
    Samira Kraziem is a senior project manager for Suffolk Construction.
  23. Tampa Bay waited long for Major League Baseball. Here’s the story.
    Earlier today• Rays
    The Florida Suncoast Dome (now Tropicana Field) is shown in the early stages of construction in the late 1980s. A WEDU PBS documentary, Rise of the Rays. A Devil of a Story, debuts at 9 p.m. Thursday, March 30 and retells the region's seven failed attempts to land a Major League Baseball franchise before landing the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays. (TIMES)
  24. Florida’s 6-week abortion ban likely to pass. What other hurdles exist?
    Earlier today• Politics
    An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood Friday, March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill. Many women will travel this year away from their homes in nearby states where abortion access has been restricted to be seen at clinics like Planned Parenthood in southern Illinois.
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