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  1. Florida adds 6,640 coronavirus cases, 140 deaths Thursday
    4 minutes ago• Health
    Florida's positivity rate was about 6.7 percent Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
  2. Winn-Dixie parent company gets another 8,100 COVID-19 vaccines for Floridians
    4 hours ago• Health
    The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Winn Dixie pharmacy during the first day of vaccination rollout on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 in Apollo Beach. Four new Hillsborough County stores will now offer vaccine appointments after the chain got a new allotment of Moderna vials.
  3. Wilton Simpson suggests running Suncoast toll-road extension near U.S. 19
    4 hours ago• Transportation
    The Suncoast Parkway ends north of Brooksville, but a controversial project on the state Department of Transportation's work list would extend it north to Jefferson County.
  5. Florida will expand access to vaccines in March, April, DeSantis says
    4 hours ago• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions during a news conference in January. On Thursday, he spoke to reporters in Jacksonville, saying expanded access to coronavirus vaccines is coming.
  6. Police, family seeking answers in slaying of Miami transgender woman
    5 hours ago• Florida
    The body of Alexus Braxton was found Feb. 4 inside her condominium at the Carmel at the California Condominiums in Miami.
  7. He thought the pandemic ended his career, but now he’s paying forward new successes
    5 hours ago• Business
    Chuck Fazio (center) debuted his new nonprofit, Picture the Recovery, from the St. Petersburg pier last month. Fazio and other photographers travel in an RV and donate their work to tourism-reliant destinations struggling because of the pandemic.
  8. Fight in holding complex leaves jaguar dead at Jacksonville zoo
    Earlier today• Florida
    The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has used its jaguars in promotions. One of the big cats died after a fight with another Saturday.
  9. Florida Supreme Court authorizes virtual criminal jury trials
    Yesterday• Health
    Seating for potential jurors at the start of an October murder trial in a Hillsborough County courtroom. The trial was the first in Hillsborough since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Potential jurors were socially distanced and wore protective face coverings. The Florida Supreme Court has issued guidelines to hold virtual jury trials.
  10. Cruise ship sailing continue to be postponed
    Yesterday• Business
    Carnival Cruise Line announced Wednesday it is suspended cruises until June. Here's the Carnival Paradise, operated by Carnival Cruise Line, unloading passengers after docking in Port Tampa Bay. [JAMES BORCHUCK | Times (2019)]
  11. Florida is better off without a detailed vaccination plan, DeSantis says
    Yesterday• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Hernando County, where he again defended prioritizing seniors for vaccines and did not share specifics on who will get shots next.
  12. Tampa teen accused in Twitter hack offered plea
    Yesterday• Crime
    Graham Ivan Clark, then 17, of Tampa, was arrested in July on 30 charges. Authorities say he was the "mastermind" of a Twitter hack scheme that gave him and two others access to the high-profile accounts of Bill Gates, Barack Obama and other celebrities with millions of followers. Above is a message sent when Apple's Twitter account was hacked.
  13. Florida adds 7,128 coronavirus cases, 129 deaths Wednesday
    Yesterday• Health
    Florida's positivity rate Wednesday was about 6.7 percent.
  14. Despite DeSantis order, Palm Beach County won’t lower flags for Limbaugh
    Yesterday• Florida
    Rush Limbaugh, speaking hear in Missouri in 2012, died of lung cancer Wednesday. He was memorialized as the "greatest of all time" on Fox's website, but critics saw him as a spreader of bigotry.
  15. ‘I don’t want to say goodbye.’ Pinellas Deputy Michael Magli is mourned.
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Fallen Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Michael J. Magli’s wife Stephanie Magli is comforted during his funeral services on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, at the Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz.
  16. Former Florida congressman fined $456,000 for propping up a ringer candidate
    Yesterday• News
    In this Nov. 2, 2010, file photo, Republican David Rivera speaks to supporters in Coral Gables, Fla. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that former U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., violated campaign finance law when he funneled $75,927 in campaign money to a novice political candidate running against Rivera’s likely Democratic challenger in Florida’s 26th Congressional District — and ordered Rivera to pay a $456,000 fine for devising a scheme he knew was illegal.
  17. Mars rover’s giant parachute carried secret message
    Yesterday• News
    This illustration provided by NASA shows a diagram added over the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out “Dare Mighty Things” in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
  18. Florida woman charged with setting fire to 10 trash trucks
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    This Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 booking photo made available by the Broward County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows Saprell Frazier who allegedly set fire last fall to 10 garbage trucks outside a solid waste business where she worked has been arrested, authorities said. Frazier, 43, was arrested during a traffic stop on Feb. 19, in Pompano Beach, Fla., a day after being placed under surveillance, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office report.
  19. Publix to add more COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough
    Yesterday• Health
    Pharmacist Aji Kannamal administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at the Winn-Dixie. Public annouced more COVID-19 vaccine appointments will open at its stores this week.
  20. Florida adds 5,000+ coronavirus cases, 154 deaths Tuesday
    Feb. 23• Health
    Florida added more than 5,000 coronavirus cases Tuesday.
  21. Company giving free books to Florida had $10 million settlement for deception
    Feb. 23• Politics
    A screenshot of the ReadingIQ program, which Age of Learning is offering to Florida children free of charge through Dec. 31.
  22. Who gets vaccinated next? Florida’s the only state that doesn’t tell you.
    Feb. 23• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is silhouetted as he speaks to the media while residents line up at a coronavirus vaccination site in the Lakewood Ranch area earlier this month.
  23. Hate crime claim against Miami doctor ‘not true,’ her lawyer says
    Feb. 23• Florida
    Dr. Jennifer Susan Wright, 58, a white ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, has been charged in Hialeah with criminal mischief, tampering with a victim and battery with prejudice, a “hate crime” enhancement that upgraded the charge to a felony.
  24. Florida teachers, police could get coronavirus vaccines soon, DeSantis says
    Feb. 23• Health
    A teacher works with students at Apollo Beach Elementary in Hillsborough County while everyone wears masks. Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that teachers and law enforcement officers who are 50 and older will get access to vaccines next, but he did not go into detail.
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