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  1. Which school workers get coronavirus vaccines? Depends on where you sign up.
    1 hour ago• Health
    Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared at a news conference Wednesday in Crystal River, where he announced a new vaccination site and addressed a question about which Florida school employees are eligible to receive doses.
  2. CVS offering virus vaccine to Florida teachers under 50
    Earlier today• Health
    The CVS Pharmacy chain is vaccinating Florida teachers under age 50, circumventing state orders that continue to limit coronavirus inoculations to those over that age.
  3. SpaceX Starship lands upright, then explodes in latest test
    Earlier today• News
    In this screen grab from video posted by SpaceX, the company's Starship launches for a test flight, Wednesday in a remote area of Texas.
  5. Wealthy Florida Keys enclave received vaccines in January before much of the state
    Earlier today• News
    An aerial view shows Ocean Reef Club, a wealthy, gated community in north Key Largo. More than 1,200 older Ocean Reef residents received vaccinations in mid-January, well before doses arrived in most other areas of the state.
  6. Florida driver swerved to miss falling couch. Then he got a ticket.
    Yesterday• Florida
    A couple driving home from a monthlong visit to Florida escaped serious injury when they swerved to avoid a couch that fell from a truck on Interstate 95. But then they got a ticket.
  7. Florida adds 6,014 coronavirus cases, 133 deaths Wednesday
    Yesterday• Health
    Florida's positivity rate Wednesday was 6 percent.
  8. Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad gets ‘quite a deal’ with 3-year prison sentence
    Yesterday• Pasco
    Ex-Port Richey mayor Dale Massad pled guilty on Wednesday to lesser charges in the attempted murder case against him during a plea hearing held before Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court judge Mary Handsel at the West Pasco Judicial Center in New Port Richey. Authorities say Massad fired on Pasco sheriff's deputies raiding his home in a 2019 investigation of allegations he was practicing law without a license. He was sentenced to 3-years in prison, but will get credit for the two years he has spent in county jail awaiting trial.
  9. Tampa’s Super Bowl was not a coronavirus super spreader, officials say
    Yesterday• Health
    Fans are seen along Tampa's Riverwalk as Tampa Bay Buccaneers players glide by during a boat parade Feb. 10 after the Bucs defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 55.
  10. Texas woman goes missing while diving wreck off Florida coast
    Yesterday• Florida
    The U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife officials are searching for a Texas woman went missing on Tuesday while scuba diving in the Florida Keys.
  11. Miss Universe competition to air live from Florida in May
    Yesterday• Florida
    Catriona Gray of the Philippines, left, reacts as she is crowned the new Miss Universe 2018. After a year and a half, the Miss Universe competition will return with a live telecast on May 16. The 69th Miss Universe will be crowned at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.
  12. Florida commuter train hits, kills man on scooter
    Yesterday• Florida
    A man riding a scooter was struck and killed by a South Florida commuter train, officials said.
  13. DeSantis dropped off 3,000 vaccines to a Pinellas senior community. But was the distribution fair?
    Yesterday• Health
    The entrance to Mainlands of Tamarac is seen Monday, Feb. 17, 2020 in Pinellas Park.
  14. Florida company fined $280K for violating Mississippi’s no-call laws
    Yesterday• Florida
    A company based in Kissimmee has been fined for violating Mississippi's phone call laws.
  15. New federal coronavirus vaccine site opens in Tampa
    Mar. 2• News
    United States Air Force service members are pictured in front of a large white tent at the site of a FEMA-run vaccine distribution site opening on Wednesday, at Tampa Greyhound Track, Tuesday, March 2, 2021 in Tampa.
  16. Florida adds 7,179 coronavirus cases, 140 deaths Tuesday
    Mar. 2• Health
    Florida's positivity rate on Tuesday was 6.2 percent, according to Johns Hopkins University.
  17. Florida deputy suspended for Facebook post about Muslims
    Mar. 2• Florida
    A central Florida sheriff's deputy was suspended for nearly a month after a civil rights group asked for an investigation into his Facebook posts about Muslims.
  18. FBI raid in New Tampa has links to Kentucky Medicare fraud, murder-for-hire
    Mar. 1• Crime
    Lesa Andrade, 61, of New Tampa, was arrested Feb. 25 in a federal murder-for-hire case. She was being held in the Pinellas County Jail, awaiting a hearing Wednesday in Kentucky federal court.
  19. Florida adds 1,700 coronavirus cases Monday, one year since first reported cases
    Mar. 1• Health
    Florida added 1,700 coronavirus cases Monday.
  20. Secretive eastern black rail added to Florida’s endangered species list
    Mar. 1• Environment
    Some of the eastern black rail's preferred habitat in Florida has been converted to homes and golf course communities.
  21. Vacancies block Florida board from meeting on land preservation grants
    Mar. 1• Environment
    Brad Husserl, 60, of Tarpon Springs, left Don Richter, 64, of Palm Harbor, second from left, Kay Carter, 68, Tarpon Springs, second from right, listen as Kay's husband Tex, 68, speaks Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 in Tarpon Springs. The group formed a nonprofit called WK Preservation Group Inc. in March in order to save the approximate 14 acres of land located along Klosterman Road in Tarpon Springs.
  22. 87-year-old Florida man is pilot missing off Boca Raton, Coast Guard says
    Mar. 1• Florida
    Coast Guard officials have identified a missing pilot as Brendan Spratt, 87.. Spratt's family provided the Coast Guard with photos, which the Coast Guard posted on their Twitter account.
  23. Disappearing seagrass hurting manatees along Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
    Mar. 1• Environment
    An egret wades in the Indian River Lagoon, where nutrients from fertilizer, septic tank and road runoff are killing seagrass.
  24. Spring breakers are coming, Tampa Bay. Fingers are crossed they’ll wear masks
    Mar. 1• Health
    Amiah Richardson, 19, of Riverview and Corrie Edwards, 17, of Clearwater, share a moment at Clearwater Beach on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.
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