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  1. Tampa and the Rays want you to stroll, bike or hop a scooter to new Ybor ballpark
    Yesterday• Tampa
    The city skyline, left, and a Kforce building, right, seen in the distance in October, at a possible site for a Tampa stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. If a request for state money is approved, two projects could link Tampa Heights and the Channel District to the stadium site, making it easier to travel there by bike, scooter or walking.
  2. Tampa police replace Crime Free program, will no longer tell landlords about tenant arrests
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Meridian Apartments on N 50th Street in Tampa is one of about 100 apartment complexes that participated in Tampa Police Department's Crime-Free Multi Housing program.
  3. Hillsborough judge notes ‘total depravity’ as she orders man detained in McKay Bay murder
    Yesterday• Crime
    Catherine Catlin listens to attorneys during the pretrial detention hearing for Robert Kessler, who is accused of murdering Stephanie Crone-Overholts, dismembering her body and dumping her body parts into McKay Bay.
  5. First look: Water Street Tampa to open Asher apartments, Roost hotel in 2022
    Yesterday• Business
    This rendering shows a residential interior at Asher, a new residential tower at 1050 Water St. in Water Street Tampa. The building will open in 2022.
  6. Could Delta-8 marijuana products soon be a thing of the past in Florida?
    Yesterday• Politics
    CBD oil in a bottle with dropper May 7, 2021 in St. Petersburg.
  7. Florida COVID cases fell Thanksgiving week, but so did vaccinations
    Yesterday• Health
    Nurse Jordan Dierksheide prepares paperwork while Josemaria Mejia, 7, of Ruskin, lifts his arm before receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination event hosted by Enterprising Latinas at Wimauma Opportunity Center in Wimauma on Nov. 14.
  8. As Florida house prices climb, demand increases for manufactured homes
    Yesterday• Real Estate
    Oakhill Village, a mobile home park in Valrico, Fla. | Times (2017)
  9. Tampa girl, 8, is witness in father’s dismemberment murder case. Family wants her home.
    Yesterday• Crime
    Robert Kessler, 69, left, is accused of killing Stephanie Crone-Overholts, right, and dumping her body parts into Tampa Bay.
  10. Leto High School fire damages arts building
    Yesterday• Education
    There were no reported injuries after a fire broke out at the arts building at Leto High School in Tampa.
  11. 4 arrested in downtown Tampa after firing at officers, police say
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Tampa police said they recovered this gun in the arrest of four people Tuesday night.
  12. Neighbors want Tampa to preserve Dobyville, a historic Black neighborhood
    Yesterday• History
    Tara Nelan poses for a portrait on the porch of her Tampa home that was formerly owned by Richard Doby, who founded Zion Cemetery and helped build the historically Black neighborhood known as Dobyville.
  13. Tampa man’s lost dance trophy, won in Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, is found
    Yesterday• History
    Tandova Ecenia holds the dance trophy her father, Paul Ecenia, won in a dance contest in October 1941 in Pearl Harbor.
  14. Serial bank robber dubbed ‘I-4 Bandit’ arrested, Clearwater police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Police say David Marc Ratcliff was arrested Tuesday in connection to a bank robbery in Clearwater. Ratcliff, the so-called "I-4 bandit," was convicted of robbing six banks in Clearwater, Tampa and Orlando in the late '90s. He was suspected of committing several others along the Interstate 4 corridor.
  15. Hillsborough deputy justified in Halloween shooting, state attorney’s office says
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    Ma'at Lee, 20, is accused of firing eight shots at a deputy during a traffic stop on Oct. 31.
  16. Omicron variant may already be in Florida. What happens next?
    Yesterday• Health
    Jonathan Pagliarulo, 11, gets tested for COVID-19 in August after vaccinated family members tested positive for the virus in North Miami.
  17. In Tampa, a 15-year fight nears the finish...at an old skating rink
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Celeste Roberts, co-founder of the Skills Center Collaborative, announces Tuesday that a 55,000-square-foot former skating rink in Belmont Heights will become a youth services center in fall 2022.
  18. Three years later, 20 years prison for shooting at Tampa cops
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Walter Jeziorski speaks in a Tampa courtroom Tuesday before being sentenced to 20 years in prison. Jeziorski pleaded guilty to charges that he shot at Tampa police Officers Richard Lehr and Leigh Smith one morning in 2018.
  19. New details emerge in death of Lutz woman found dismembered in McKay Bay
    Nov. 29• Breaking News
    Robert Kessler, 69, left, is accused of killing Stephanie Crone-Overholts, right, and dumping her body parts into Tampa Bay.
  20. Tampa Bay doctor’s program aims to boost minority representation in medicine
    Nov. 29• Tampa
    Dexter Frederick speaks with volunteer nurse and USF doctoral student Morgan Butts regarding a patient at Grace Community Medical Center on Nov. 10.
  21. The luckiest man in the restaurant business is from Tarpon Springs
    Nov. 27• Community News
    Nick Vojnovic, president of Little Greek Fresh Grill and Green Market Cafe.
  22. Tampa, St. Petersburg receive perfect scores on nationwide LGBTQ+ equality rating
    Nov. 26• News
    Smiling faces and bright colors are seen along the route of the 2021 Tampa Pride Diversity Parade on May 22 in Ybor City. Tampa and St. Petersburg got perfect scores in the Human Rights Campaign’s annual LGBTQ+ equality index.
  23. Vet’s campaign materials raise question on DoD photo regulations
    Nov. 26• Pinellas
    Republican veteran Jay Collins, running against U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, uses numerous photos of himself in uniform and identifies himself as “Green Beret Jay Collins” in his campaign website, Facebook page and fundraiser invitations. But how combat photos of Collins are used could raise questions about whether the materials comply with Defense Department regulations on the subject.
  24. Tampa surgeon in Tesla struck bicycling banker at about 80 mph, records say
    Nov. 26• Crime
    Adam Hasebroock, of Tampa, seen here in 2018 after winning first overall in the TRI Pasco triathlon, was killed Nov. 4 when he was struck by a car while riding his bike on Lizards Tail Road in New Tampa. Police arrested the driver, Dr. Philip Henkin, on a charge of vehicular homicide.
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