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  1. Pregnant mother found dead in New Tampa was caring and lovable, her mom says
    4 hours ago• Tampa
    Alana Sims, 22, of Tampa was the woman found lying dead next to her SUV parked in the Easton Park subdivision in New Tampa neighborhood on Monday, according to her mother, Shahlevi Sims.
  2. Tampa startup Slide buys 91,400 homeowners policies from UPC Insurance
    4 hours ago• Business
    Homes in the Palmetto Palms Mobile Home Park in Fort Myers showed significant damage sustained during Hurricane Ian on Sep 29.
  3. Tampa’s Glazer Children’s Museum unboxes giant dinosaur skull for upcoming exhibit
    5 hours ago• Life & Culture
    Fossil restorers Elia Smaniotto, of Trieste, Italy, left, and Tomas Stark, of Sezana, Slovenia, remove the skull of Big John from a crate on Wednesday at the Glazer Children's Museum in Tampa. The complete triceratops skeleton will be the center of an exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend.
  5. Hillsborough bans retail sales of rabbits
    5 hours ago• Hillsborough
    The Hillsborough County Commission on Wednesday banned retail sales of rabbits. Shown are two animals at the SPCA Tampa Bay in Largo in November 2021.
  6. Feeding Tampa Bay breaks ground at site of new headquarters
    Earlier today• Hillsborough
    Thomas Mantz, the president and chief executive officer of Feeding Tampa Bay, speaks about the nonprofit’s new expanded headquarters along Causeway Boulevard on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Tampa.
  7. Tampa, Hillsborough receive $39.7 million in US aid to make roads safer
    Earlier today• Transportation
    The city of Tampa previously improved the bike lane with better visual graphics for bike safety on Platt Street in Tampa. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced two grants totaling $39.7 million would be coming to Tampa and Hillsborough County to improve road safety. [Times 2015]
  8. Tampa City Council candidate Mike Suarez owes $61,000 in federal income taxes
    Earlier today• Tampa
    Former Tampa City Council member Mike Suarez, who is running for the citywide District 2 seat, says he has paid off an IRS lien of more than $61,000 levied in 2021. In 2019, Suarez, pictured above, ran unsuccessfully for mayor.
  9. Man dies after Tampa shooting, police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Officers were called to the 1700 block of East 24th Avenue in Tampa around 10:21 a.m. Tuesday and discovered a man with a gunshot wound, the Tampa Police Department said in a news release Tuesday afternoon. The man later died.
  10. Dense fog clouded commutes in Tampa Bay on Tuesday. Will it return Wednesday?
    Yesterday• Local Weather
    Mike Kinnard, of Palm Harbor, deploys a pair of rigs while pursuing his quarry — blacktip sharks and spotted sea bass — off the shallows of the Dunedin Causeway on Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023, where a dense fog advisory remained in place through 10 a.m., blanketing Pinellas, Polk, and portions of Hernando, Pasco, Hillsborough and Manatee counties as a ridge of high pressure continues to dominate weather conditions over Florida, keeping multiple upper-level disturbances from sliding into the area through most of the week, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
  11. Pinellas death row prisoner, focus of Netflix’s ‘Girl in the Picture,’ dies
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    A poster assembled by St. Petersburg police shows Franklin Delano Floyd and several aliases he is known to have used. Floyd died last week after 20 years on Florida's death row.
  12. Florida expands campaign to help reduce accidental baby deaths
    Yesterday• Health
    Stephanie Calvert, with Sunstar Paramedics, left, pauses to visit with St. Petersburg Fire Rescue firefighter-paramedic Josh Burch and his 7-month-old son, Kane, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, at the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County in Clearwater. That's where officials gathered to announce the expansion of locally-born Sleep Baby Safely campaign to eight counties across the state.
  13. Hillsborough to sue over $2.4 million CareerSource debt
    Yesterday• Business
    Hillsborough County plans to sue an insurance carrier to try to recoup $2.48 million it fronted CareerSource Tampa Bay to repay the U.S. Department of Labor over misspending identified in a federal audit.
  14. Mother found slain near her sleeping toddler in New Tampa
    Yesterday• Breaking News
    A Tampa police patrol SUV is seen near the scene on Pictorial Park Drive in New Tampa where a woman was found dead on the ground Monday night next to an SUV in which her toddler son was found safe, strapped in a car seat.
  15. Tampa Bay leaders condemn fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis
    Jan. 30• Crime
    Protesters rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday.
  16. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Jan. 30• Pets
    Butterfinger and Marcus are two of many animals hoping to find "fur"ever homes.
  17. Spring Hill singer found guilty in Jan. 6 case
    Jan. 30• Hernando
    Audrey Ann Southard, center, holds a mask during a counter-protest against a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New Port Richey on Aug. 8, 2020.
  18. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor will start police chief search after April elections
    Jan. 30• Tampa
    Mayor Jane Castor, in center, announced during a Feb. 8 news conference that she had selected Mary O’Connor, second from left, as her pick for the new police chief. Also pictured is Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw and then-interim police Chief Mary O’Connor Ruben “Butch” Delgado. Bercaw is now the interim chief after O'Connor resigned in December and Delgado has since retired. Castor says she will begin the search for the next chief "in earnest" after the city's runoff election on April 25.
  19. Tampa loses control of historic Black cemetery. A property flipper now owns it.
    Jan. 30• History
    Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa is seen in 2021. The cemetery opened in 1919.
  20. Hillsborough County hotels hit $1 billion in annual taxable revenue
    Jan. 30• Business
    The downtown Tampa skyline is visible through a swimming pool cabana at the Tampa Edition hotel, which opened in October. Visit Tampa Bay reported that Hillsborough County hotels saw more than $1 billion in taxable revenue during 2022, a record.
  21. Fewer Gasparilla arrests this year than last, police say
    Jan. 29• Tampa
    Beaded necklaces are scattered about Bayshore Boulevard during the 2023 Gasparilla Parade of Pirates on Saturday in Tampa.
  22. Beads, beers, a little bit of brrr: Tampa gets its pirate party on at Gasparilla
    Jan. 28• Hillsborough
    The Jose Gasparilla pirate ship carries members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla en route to the Tampa Convention Center during the Gasparilla Invasion Saturday.
  23. Gasparilla victory parade turns into a pirate party along the Riverwalk
    Jan. 28• Life & Culture
    Skyla Carter, 24, of Tampa, waves during the 2023 Gasparilla Parade of Pirates.
  24. Jury finds Tampa rapper not guilty in fatal double shooting
    Jan. 27• Crime
    Billy Adams III testifies Thursday during his trial for the shootings of Trevon Albury and Daniel Thompson in a Lutz recording studio. Adams said he killed the pair after Albury pulled a gun in an attempt to rob the studio engineer.
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