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  1. Tampa’s Michael Penix Jr. finishes Heisman Trophy runnerup
    Earlier today• Sports
    Washington star Michael Penix Jr. was one of four finalists for the Heisman Trophy. Penix is the first player from a Tampa Bay area high school to beocme a finalist for college football's most prestigious honor.
  2. Pedestrian, bicyclist killed in St. Petersburg car crash Saturday
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    St. Petersburg police were investigating a traffic crash Saturday that killed a pedestrian and a bicyclist.
  3. Rapper 2 Chainz posts video of himself inside an ambulance after Miami car crash
    Yesterday• Crime
    2 Chainz at the 2023 ESPY Awards in Hollywood July 12, 2023. According to TMZ, 2 Chainz was injured in a Miami car crash early Saturday morning.
  5. Driver arrested in wrong-way Skyway crash that killed Uber driver, two passengers
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    A Ford Mustang and Dodge Caravan are pictured on Interstate 275 near the northern end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge after the driver of the Mustang fled from the Florida Highway Patrol late Wednesday night, turned around at the top of the Skyway and drove north in the southbound lanes until crashing head-on into the Dodge.
  6. A $10,000 members-only sushi restaurant is coming to Miami
    Yesterday• Food
    To eat at Sushi Namba and drink at Listening Room, Miami residents will first have to pay a $10,000 members fee.
  7. Historic South Beach hotel is getting an $85 million makeover. What’s new?
    Yesterday• Travel
    The Shelborne South Beach hotel shown on Friday, March 28, 2014.
  8. St. Petersburg man accused of Thanksgiving New York mass shooting threat
    Yesterday• Crime
    Robert Jacob Trout III is accused of making an Instagram post that threatened a mass shooting in New York City.
  9. Is Nikki Haley’s measurement of China’s naval power correct? | Fact check
    Yesterday• Politics
    Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley answering questions in the Spin Room after the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NewsNation on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at the Moody Music Hall at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
  10. No longer waiting on judges, Seminole Hard Rock opens its sportsbook
    Yesterday• Sports
    Seminole Tribe Council chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. tries out the craps table during a ceremony to introduce craps, roulette and sports betting in Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday.
  11. Florida’s rainfall disparity sees southeast deluged, Gulf Coast parched
    Yesterday• Environment
    Small planes are parked at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after it was forced to shut down due to flooding on April 13. It's been a rainfall tale of two states in Florida this year, where the southeast coast has been inundated by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf coast is dry as a bone.
  12. Tampa General gets greenlight for $510 million Davis Islands expansion
    Yesterday• Health
    An architect's rendering of the $510 million TGH Surgical, Neuroscience & Transplant Pavilion planned for Tampa General Hospital's main campus on Davis Islands.
  13. The Tampa Bay Times tested 20 kratom products. Here’s what we found.
    Yesterday• Investigations
    University of Florida researchers tested 20 kratom products provided by the Tampa Bay Times, including leaf powders and concentrated extracts.
  14. Florida plans to cut red tape for schools. But will lawmakers add some too?
    Yesterday• Education
    State Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, holds a book containing the state education code to make a point during a meeting of the Senate Education PreK-12 Committee on Nov. 15. He said the code was more than 3 inches thick and needs to be trimmed of some restrictions on school districts.
  15. Tampa woman killed in Nebraska Avenue crash involving garbage truck
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    A woman was killed Friday when the car she was riding in was hit by a garbage truck on Nebraska Avenue in Tampa.
  16. Bay Pines officer’s body camera recorded him having sex while on duty
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    The CEO of the Bay Pines Healthcare System promised "appropriate action" after an officer with the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Police Department accidentally recorded himself on body-cam footage having sex while on duty.
  17. Court documents shed light on evidence against Ybor City shooting suspects
    Yesterday• Crime
    A street sweeper and city crews cleans Seventh Avenue in Ybor City as Tampa police investigators collect evidence at the scene of a shooting on Oct. 29 that left two dead and 15 injured by gunfire. Two suspects charged this week in the shooting were with the 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot that night, and both suspects fired back at the man accused of shooting the teen, records show.
  18. DeSantis wants to assign more National Guard members to Florida prisons
    Yesterday• Politics
    A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution in Florida City. Amid staffing shortages, Florida plans to keep tapping the National Guard to assist in prisons.
  19. Beloved Tampa restaurant Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe property is for sale
    Yesterday• Food News
    Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe has been listed for sale.
  20. Freed from a Miami aquarium, Florida manatees Romeo and Juliet arrive at ZooTampa for care
    Yesterday• Environment
    Staff move Romeo, a manatee from the Miami Seaquarium, into a pool at ZooTampa on Tuesday.
  21. Hanukkah events bring people together in St. Petersburg, Clearwater
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    Children walk past a Star of David, where the Chabad of Clearwater lit candles during their Unite Through Light Hanukkah celebration on Thursday, Dec 7, 2023, at Coachman Park in Clearwater. The event hosted live music, a chocolate gelt drop, drinks, potato latkes, and doughnuts.
  22. Extremely rare, white leucistic alligator is born at a Florida reptile park
    Yesterday• Environment
    A photo provided by Gatorland shows the white leucistic alligator. There are only seven leucistic alligators in the world, with three of them located at Gatorland Orlando, according to officials with the reptile park.
  23. Tampa man arrested on DUI manslaughter charge after fatal Pasco crash
    Yesterday• Crime
    The driver of a Jeep Wrangler was killed in a crash in Pasco County Thursday night. The driver who hit him was arrested on a DUI-manslaughter charge.
  24. Stormy weather likely in Tampa Bay this weekend ahead of cold front
    Yesterday• weather
    Raindrops create shapes in a puddle as rain fell at War Veterans Memorial Park in St. Petersburg in July 2021. The National Weather Service is anticipating a 60% to 70% chance of rain across Tampa Bay beginning Sunday afternoon.
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