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Letters: With each year at Hillsborough College, the home of the Hawks feels less like the nest I once knew
Elegy for the Hawk.
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Pinellas human rights board could investigate sheriff for immigrant detention policies
The board is exploring legal options to investigate potential wrongdoing in the Pinellas County Jail’s rebooking policy.
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Tampa’s Legends Guitars reopens under new ownership, 15 years after closing
Expect a guitar raffle, giveaways, and more on Saturday.
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Florida sheriffs begin dropping license plate readers as DeSantis warns against ‘surveillance state’
“You want to get in your car and you want to go to down to Buc-ees in St Augustine, it’s really none of the government’s damn business if you’re doing that, right?”
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DeSantis Administration bans Flock cameras from state highways
Local law enforcement agencies that previously received a permit to use the cameras to take them down within 30 days.
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Tampa City Council’s 4-3 vote to approve Rays stadium funding is just the first of many steps
The agreement is a framework reliant on many, many steps and processes for all of the elements to be realized.
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New Florida law to protect consumers from data center costs faces its first test
The case before Florida’s Public Service Commission is weighing whether Duke Energy plans to do enough to shield customers from the costs of data centers, including one planned for Fort Meade
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This year’s Florida bear hunt will allow hunters to kill more bears
The FWC is offering up to 215 permits, that’s more than the 172 permits made available for last year’s hunt.
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‘This is money laundering’: David Jolly says Casey DeSantis, Hope Florida were ‘used’ in a ‘sinister plan’
“I think the governor’s right when he says it’s wrong to smear the first lady. I don’t think the first lady had anything to do with this.”
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Scott Elliott, Tampa artist and WMNF DJ, has died at age 66
‘He had the gift of making you feel that you mattered.’
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Florida Dems call for resignations amid Hope Florida leak, while DeSantis claims investigation was designed to ‘smear’ his wife
Appearing in Lake City, the governor said the only apparent crime was committed by “whoever leaked the grand jury report.”
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Tampa City Councilwoman Lynn Hurtak says she has breast cancer
The 49-year-old, who is also running for mayor, said she will start treatment on Monday.
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Pasco Sheriff’s Office will begrudgingly end Flock, license plate detection systems
Pasco County Sheriff’s Office currently leases roughly 70 Flock cameras.
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‘A highly orchestrated scheme to launder Medicaid money’: Leaked grand jury report prompts calls for Moody and Uthmeier to resign
“It is clear it’s a violation of the law,” Jolly said in an online call with reporters on Thursday.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ends Tampa event when asked about kratom ties
The incident occurred while Kennedy and Senator Ashley Moody promoted the Harvest to Hallways initiative at a Tampa elementary school.
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Pinellas sheriff re-booked migrants to bypass federal law limiting detention time, says report
The Pinellas County Jail was releasing and rebooking immigrants to reset the 72-hour detention limit, according to a ProPublica report.
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‘My platform hasn’t changed’: Tampa State Rep. Brian Nathan on unions, affordability and more
“I want to make sure that our teachers, transit workers and sanitation workers have the same opportunity for representation like our other unionized public sector workers do, like police and fire.”
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Grand jury says Florida AG James Uthmeier was in ‘position of authority’ in $10 million Medicaid scandal
Witnesses identified him as having involvement in directing the money after it went to Hope Florida.
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Florida Gun Rights group upset over Byron Donalds’ pick for running mate because he voted for firearm safety after Parkland massacre
“We need to repeal the Parkland gun control not promote its supporters.”
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The City of Tampa hosts a hurricane prep event on Saturday
There’s no cover when emergency management and public safety officials help residents be ready for the next storm.
