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St. Pete student teaches peers the violin
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- St. Pete student teaches peers the violin
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- 3:05
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- 4 years ago
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- Christian-Blake Edwin Williams, 11, started playing the violin at five years old. Now he teaches his peers at Divine Academy of Learning in St. Petersburg and inspires them to learn the instrument.
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- Wildfire burns 4,000 acres amid high heat
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- 1:54
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- 4 years ago
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- The biggest active Texas wildfire is the 4,000-acre Chalk Mountain Fire about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
The fire, which began Monday afternoon, was just 10% contained after blackening about 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) as of midday Tuesday, and crews using bulldozers were digging containment lines while fire trucks and aircraft worked to extinguish the flames, the forest service said.
No injuries have been reported from the fires, and their causes were under investigation.
A combination of near-record- and record-high temperatures approaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) combined with breezes gusting as high as 30 mph (40-50 kph) and drought conditions to leave the region ripe for fire, the forest service said.
Eight structures are known to have been lost in that fire.
A red flag warning was issued for northern and central Texas.
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- Students recall day of Florida school shooting
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- 1:29
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- 4 years ago
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- Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are being shown graphic video of him murdering 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The jurors also heard testimony from two students who were wounded as they sat in their English class when Cruz fired through a window in the door.
William Olson was writing an essay when "all of a sudden I hear a bunch of noise in the hallway. I did not know what it was."
Olson said he looked over and saw another freshman draped over a desk, blood pouring out of him as he died.
At that point, Olson said he and other students scrambled next to the teacher's desk.
"While I'm laying in front of the desk I realize there's blood all over me," he said. He had suffered arm and leg wounds.
Alexander Dworet said he originally thought the loud bangs were the school's marching band, but then he felt a "hot sensation" on the back of his head where he had...
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- House passes same-sex marriage bill
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservative Americans.
The vote was 267-157, with dozens of Republican joining Democrats for passage.
With a robust but lopsided debate, Democrats argued intensely in favor of enshrining marriage equality in federal law, while Republicans steered clear of openly rejecting gay marriage. Instead leading Republicans portrayed the bill as unnecessary amid other issues facing the nation.
Tuesday's election-year roll call was partly political strategy, forcing all House members, Republicans and Democrats, to go on the record with their views. It also reflected the legislative branch pushing back against an aggressive court that has sparked fears it may revisit apparently settled U.S. laws.
Wary of politica...
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- Beach cleaning robot tours Pinellas County
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- 2:11
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- 4 years ago
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- A new solar-powered, beach-cleaning robot has arrived in Pinellas County, drawing attention to all the debris lurking just beneath the beach surface.
Overseen by Keep Pinellas Beautiful, BeBot will visit 14 locations this month, from Clearwater to St. Pete Beach. The remote-controlled robot collects small pieces of litter — cigarette butts, plastic straws, bottle caps, food wrappers and more.
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- White House issues warning on new COVID variants
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.
The new variants, labeled BA.4 and BA.5, are offshoots of the omicron strain that has been been responsible for nearly all of the virus spread in the U.S. and are even more contagious than their predecessors. White House doctors stressed the importance of getting booster doses, even if you have recently been infected.
"Currently, many Americans are under vaccinated, meaning they are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Staying up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines provides the best protection against severe outcomes."
Walensky said the U.S. has seen a doubling in the number of hosp...
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- Wimauma 12-year-old critically injured in fatal accident in Mexico returns home
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- 3:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Jasmin Cervantes-Garcia, a 12-year-old Wimauma girl, was critically injured in a fatal crash in Mexico that killed her parents and grandparents in late June. Reports say a charter bus hit the family’s pickup truck head-on while they were vacationing in Leon, Mexico. Her aunt, Cindy Garcia, started a GoFundMe page to bring Jasmin home so she can get the medical treatment she needs. More than $30,000 has been donated for her care. Jet ICU picked up Jasmin, her older brother Cruz Cervantes-Garcia, and her aunt in Mexico on Tuesday and the flight arrived in Tampa later that night.
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- Biden reveals first image from new space telescope
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday revealed the first image from NASA’s new space telescope - the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope shows the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos.
That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
Biden showed what NASA calls a “deep field" image. It's a shot filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible.
Part of the image will be of light from not too long after the Big Bang.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing. “And ...
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- Parkland father interrupts Biden: 'We have to do more'
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- President Joe Biden's remarks Monday celebrating a new law meant to reduce gun violence was heckled by Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
As Biden was speaking on the White House South Lawn hailing the new legislation, Oliver demanded, "we need to do more than that."
The bill, passed after recent gun rampages in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, incrementally toughens requirements for young people to buy guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers, and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
But the "celebration" came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law in addressing the American phenomenon of mass gun violence.
And it comes as Democratic governors have taken up the mantle of offering outrage in the ...
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- Pinellas deputies shoot, kill Tampa man in Safety Harbor, police say
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Four Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot a 43-year-old Tampa man Thursday who they believed was involved in a carjacking the day before, according to the Clearwater Police Department.
Robert Hubbard was shot after he pointed a handgun at deputies, police said. He later died.
The Pinellas County Use of Deadly Force Investigative Task Force is investigating the shooting, with Clearwater police taking the lead. Under the guidelines laid out in the task force’s partnership agreement, the Clearwater and St. Petersburg police departments divide use-of-force incidents involving Pinellas County deputies, with Clearwater police investigating those that happen north of Ulmerton and Walsingham roads and St. Petersburg police handling those that happen south of that.
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- Florida physician donates ambulance to Ukraine
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Since the war in Ukraine began, Tatyana Borisiak has been helping family members and other Ukrainians in relief efforts.
She said on the first day of the war, she was sheltering 27 people in the home she owns in her hometown of Verhovyna in Western Ukraine when many more flooded into the village.
"All the situation in Ukraine. It affects us all. And all of us have to do some kind of part," Borisiak said.
Borisiak remembers working in her hometown village hospital as a teenager and seeing the ambulance that is still used today.
And so came the Idea to raise enough money to purchase a new ambulance to help support displaced families.
By going door to door, asking for donations, she was able to raise $37,000.
The ambulance was outfitted in Germany and arrived in June to the village by way of Poland.
The ambulance is in full operation, providing for the people of the region.
Serving as a hospitalist a...
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- Largest python in Florida history discovered
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said.
The female python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 18 feet long (5 meters) and had 122 developing eggs, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said in a news release.
The team used radio transmitters transplanted in male "scout" snakes to study python movements, breeding behaviors and habitat use, said Ian Bartoszek, wildlife biologist and environmental science project manager for the conservancy's program.
The team used a scout snake named Dionysus — or Dion for short — in an area of the western Everglades.
Biologist Ian Easterling and intern Kyle Findley helped capture the female snake and haul it through the woods to the field truck.
A necropsy also found hoof cores in the snake's digest system, meaning that an adult white-tailed deer was its last meal.
National Geographic docu...
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- Suspect charged in Highland Park shooting
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The man charged Tuesday with seven counts of murder for opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago legally bought five weapons, including two high-powered rifles, despite authorities being called to his home twice in 2019 for threats of violence and suicide, police said.
Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart promised Tuesday that dozens more charges would be sought. He added that the suspect, if convicted of the murder charges, would receive a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
A spokesman for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force told a news conference that the suspected shooter, who was arrested late Monday, used a rifle “similar to an AR-15" to spray more than 70 rounds from atop a commercial building into a crowd that had gathered for the parade in Highland Park, an affluent community of about 30,000 on the Lake Michigan shore.
Police said they were called to the suspect's home in September...
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- DeSantis vows to appeal Florida abortion ban block
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A Florida judge said Thursday that he will temporarily block a 15-week ban on abortions in his state, but his bench ruling won't take effect before the ban becomes law Friday — an issue that could cause confusion for patients as well as abortion providers.
Gov. DeSantis' office said it would appeal the ruling and he has pledged to "expand pro-life protections" in the future.
Meanwhile, a Kentucky judge temporarily blocked that state's near-total ban on abortions, allowing the procedures to resume after they were abruptly stopped when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
The cases in Florida and Kentucky reflect battles being waged in courts across the country after the Supreme Court said abortion was no longer protected under the federal constitution. The high court left it up to states to decide whether abortion is legal within their borders — forcing attorneys on both sides of the debate to turn to their state constitutio...
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- Pop Goes the Waffle food truck opens Gulfport café
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- 3:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Since first launching her company in 2017, the CEO and founder of Pop Goes the Waffle, Sara Fludd, has become one of the most recognized local food entrepreneurs in the Tampa Bay area. Her coveted liege waffles, which Fludd sells from inside her signature bright blue truck as well as through wholesale and online markets, are a common sight at festivals, events and coffee shops across town.
This year, Fludd made the transition and opened her first a cafe in Gulfport, but she will still operate the truck for events and catering orders.
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- Jackson becomes first Black woman on Supreme Court
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Nearly three months after she won confirmation to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially becoming a justice.
Jackson, 51, was sworn as the court's 116th justice Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires.
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- Jackson Supreme Court swearing-in historic
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Nearly three months after she won confirmation to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially becoming a justice.
Jackson, 51, will be sworn as the court's 116th justice Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires.
The judicial pas de deux is set to take place at noon, the moment Breyer said in a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday that his retirement will take effect after nearly 28 years on the nation's highest court.
The court is expected to issue its final opinions earlier Thursday in a momentous and rancorous term that included overturning Roe v. Wade's guarantee of the right to an abortion. The remaining cases are a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate climate-warming emissions from power plants, and Biden's bid to end the Trump-era "remain in Mexico" asylum program.
In a ceremony the court said it will stream live on its website, Jackson will re...
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- Lightning fall short of three-peat. What's next for them?
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- 6:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Tampa Bay came up two wins shy of reaching their ultimate goal, falling to the Colorado Avalanche in the Stanley Cup Final. What injuries were the players dealing with throughout the playoffs? How will the team handle those who are now free agents?
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- Meet Anarkitty, Girls Rock St. Pete’s teen band that pulled off the impossible
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The campers from Girls Rock St. Pete rallied against storms and time to play at St. Pete Pride.
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- 46 migrants found dead in trailer in San Antonio
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Forty-six people were found dead in and near a tractor-trailer and 16 others were taken to hospitals in a presumed migrant smuggling attempt into the United States, officials in San Antonio said.
It’s among the deadliest tragedies to have claimed thousands of lives of people attempting to cross the U.S. border from Mexico in recent decades.
Ten migrants died in 2017 after being trapped inside a truck that was parked at a Walmart in San Antonio. In 2003, 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of San Antonio.
A city worker at the scene on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio was alerted to the situation by a cry for help shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, Police Chief William McManus said.
Officers arrived to find a body on the ground outside the trailer and a partially opened gate to the trailer, he said.
Of the 16 taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses, 12 were adults and four were children, sa...
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- Lightning fall short in Game 6, Avalanche become Stanley Cup champions
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Tampa Bay Lightning fell just two wins short of a third-straight Stanley Cup championship. The emotions were running high following the game as the team talked about the disappointment and appreciation for all they've achieved.
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- St. Pete Pride draws thousands in first parade after pandemic
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After two years of muted celebration, St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront came alive with anticipation.
Thousands crowded along Bayshore Drive and in the North and South Straub parks, sporting rainbow socks, flags and tutus. They danced to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough” and licked popsicles in the almost 90-degree weather, the heat barely abated by overhead clouds.
It was the 20th anniversary of St. Petersburg’s annual Pride celebration. So much had changed since the first, when the only public acknowledgment of the parade from City Hall came from a single council member.
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- Biden calls abortion ruling 'a sad day' for country
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- President Joe Biden said Friday that "it's a sad day for the court and the country" after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
"Now with Roe gone, let's be very clear, the health and life of women across this nation are now at risk," he said from the White House.
He added that "the court has done what it's never done before — expressly taking away a constitution right that is so fundamental to so many Americans," he said.
The White House has been preparing for this moment since a draft of the decision leaked in May. Officials have been huddling with state leaders, advocates, health care professionals and others to prepare for a future without Roe v. Wade.
Now Biden's plans will be tested in terms of politics and policy. Biden said his administration would defend a woman's right to cross state lines to seek an abortion.
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- U.S. Supreme Court formally overrules Roe v. Wade
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overrule Roe v. Wade. Monday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.
The ruling Monday came weeks after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
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- Lightning's season on the line after heartbreaking Game 4 loss
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Game 4 ended in an abundance of controversy as Colorado seemingly had to many men on the ice just before they scored the game-winning goal in overtime. However, no penalty was called and the Bolts now trail the Avalanche 3-1 in the Stanley Cup Final. After the game, Jon Cooper was extremely emotional -- hear from him and some of the players.
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- Tampa tradition of baking Cuban bread with palmetto leaves at risk
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- 3:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- For as far back as anyone can remember, Tampa bakers have used palmetto leaves to make Cuban bread.
And for the last three decades, the same man has traveled the state collecting the palm leaves needed by La Segunda Bakery, which bakes more than seven million loaves a year.
But that man, who La Segunda employees will only identify as Danny because he wants to stay unknown, has informed the company he is contemplating retirement.
When he does, there is serious concern that no one will want to replace him. Those who have done the job say it is grueling.
“A Tampa tradition is threatened,” said Robbie Faedo, manager of Michelle Faedo’s Tampeño Cuisine, which uses La Segunda’s bread for their Cuban sandwiches.
It’s a tradition that will impact the nation, said Tony Moré, who co-owns the 107-year-old La Segunda business with locations in Ybor City, South Tampa and St. Petersburg. Around 95% of the nation’s Cuban b...
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- St. Pete couple raises parrot like a child
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Apollo is only 2, but he’s growing up fast.
He knows the names of colors and how to ask questions to satisfying his growing curiosity. His parents nourish him with fresh chicken eggs, organic vegetables and the occasional bug. He loves looking out the window and crushing pistachios into his sharp, clawed feet.
“We always kiss after I give him a snack,” said his mother, Tori Lacey.
“He’s my son, my child,” she continued. “But also a project.”
Lacey, 24, and her fiance, Dalton Mason, 23, have been raising Apollo to be most intelligent bird possible. The African grey parrot can answer questions on command and clearly communicate what he’s thinking.
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- Rob Gronkowski retires. Take a look back at his time in Tampa.
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After two seasons with the Bucs and nine with the Patriots, the tight end is retiring from football (again). Take a look back on some of his stand-out moments in Tampa.
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- Lightning take a commanding win over the Avalanche in Game 3
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Down 2-0 in the series, the Lightning delivered exactly the response they needed back on home ice in Game 3. Ten different players got on the scoresheet en route to a 6-2 victory. Hear from the players and head coach Jon Cooper.
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- Kenan Thompson talks NHL Awards, Lightning, 'The Mighty Ducks', and more
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- 9:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson is returning to host the 2022 NHL Awards, which will be broadcast live from Armature Works in Tampa. He talked with Times reporters about the gig, living in Tampa, his role in 'The Mighty Ducks' franchise, and more.
0:00 Living in Tampa
1:13 Hosting The NHL Awards
2:56 Similarities between hosting and working on SNL
3:56 What Kenan would rename the NHL Awards
6:02 Inclusion in hockey
7:30 Role in 'The Mighty Ducks'
9:12 Why you should watch the NHL Awards
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- What names go with the faces of the Colorado Avalanche players?
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- 3:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Lots of people have heard the names of Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, and other players on the Colorado Avalanche. But does MacKinnon look like a Nathan? Does Landeskog look like a Gabriel? We asked fans to guess the names of Avalanche players based on their faces, and the results didn't disappoint.
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- Fed rate hike means even higher consumer costs
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Record low-interest mortgages are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. You'll pay more for an auto loan. The unusually large three-quarter point hike in the Fed's benchmark short-term rate is going to have a lot of impacts on Americans' finances.
The hope is that by making borrowing more expensive, the #Fed will succeed in cooling demand for homes, cars and other goods and services and slow inflation.
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- Harris: Overturning Roe could erode rights
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with a group of constitutional law, privacy and technology experts Tuesday to discuss how overturning Roe V. Wade could undermine many other constitutional freedoms, including privacy.
"We know that our nation was founded on certain principles that we hold dear. Principles of freedom, of liberty and self determination. And do believe all of those principles are at stake when we look at the leaked draft," Harris told the experts.
The vice president added: "From these principles, most notably come the Constitutional right to privacy, the rights of an individual to make decisions about their life, about their family, about their family, about their body, without government interference. And so there is a lot at stake in the outcome of this decision."
Harris said states with abortion bans could restrict IVF if they believe life begins at fertilization.
The same bans could be used to restrict contracep...
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- Thousands rally in US demanding action on gun laws
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act.
"Enough is enough," District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser told the second March for Our Lives rally in her city. "I speak as a mayor, a mom, and I speak for millions of Americans and America's mayors who are demanding that Congress do its job. And its job is to protect us, to protect our children from gun violence."
Speaker after speaker in Washington called on senators, who are seen as a major impediment to legislation, to act or face being voted out of office, especially given the shock to the nation's conscience after 19 children and two teachers were killed May 24 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
"If our government can't do anything to stop 19 kids from being killed and slaughtered...
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- Lightning advance to Stanley Cup Final for third straight year
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Tampa Bay beat the New York Rangers 2-1 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final to secure their third straight Stanley Cup Final berth. Captain Steven Stamkos scored both of the Lightning's goals. Hear the postgame reaction from the team.
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- Cuban Americans push back against radio takeover
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A major media deal supported by Democratic fundraisers to recover lost ground among Hispanics by purchasing Spanish-language radio stations around the United States is stirring up opposition in Miami, where Cuban exiles describe it as an attempt to stifle conservative and anti-Communist voices.
The Latino Media Network, a startup founded by two political strategists who worked for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, reached a $60 million deal to acquire 18 AM and FM stations in ten U.S. cities from Televisa/Univision.
The agreement announced last week still needs Federal Communications Commission approval.
The audiences in these markets are diverse, with Hispanics with roots all over Latin America listening in from Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, McAllen, Fresno and Las Vegas.
The network said it will focus on creating content that addresses the
different cult...
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- Pelosi: House ready to pass Senate bill on guns
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- House Speaker #NancyPelosi says the House stands ready to consider a gun bill from the #Senate “if it’s life-saving and can make a difference.”
But she cautioned: “We cannot have subterfuge. We can’t have them say well, it’s about this and it’s about that. No, it’s about guns.”
This comes after the House approved a “red flag” bill Thursday that would allow families, police and others to ask federal courts to order the removal of firearms from people at extreme risk of harming themselves or others.
It's the Democratic-controlled chamber's latest response to U.S. mass shootings and likely stands little chance in the Senate.
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia currently have such “red flag" laws. Under the House bill, a judge could issue an order to temporarily remove and store the firearms until a hearing can be held, up to two weeks later, to determine whether the firearms should be returned or kept for...
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- Bucs' 8th annual Cut and Color for a Cure features a redheaded Tom Brady
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers continued their support of the fight against childhood cancer through their annual “Cut and Color for a Cure” event that benefits the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Bucs players, coaches, and staff got their heads shaved and hair dyed by pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
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- Actor McConaughey eulogizes Uvalde victims at WH
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Academy Award–winning actor #MatthewMcConaughey took center stage at the White House briefing Tuesday to call on Congress to "reach a higher ground" and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month's shooting rampage at an elementary school in his home town of #Uvalde, Texas.
In a highly personal 22-minute speech, #McConaughey offered a full-throated exhortation for a gridlocked Congress to pass gun reforms that can save lives without infringing on Second Amendment rights.
McConaughey used his star power to make an argument for legislation in a fashion that the Biden administration has not been able to, offering a clear connection to the small Texas town and offering vivid detail on the sheer loss of the 19 children and two teachers in the second worst mass school shooting in U.S. history.
"We want secure and safe schools and we want gun laws that won't make it so easy for the bad guys to get the damn g...
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- Lightning dominate Game 4, even series vs. Rangers
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Tampa Bay held serve on home ice to even up the Eastern Conference Final at two games apiece. The Bolts got on the board early and kept their foot on the gas pedal the rest of the way through Game 4. Listen to the postgame reaction from the team.
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- Celebration of UK history and life in jubilee pageant
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Queen Elizabeth II waved to a crowd of thousands from the Buckingham Palace balcony as celebrations of her 70-year reign continued on Sunday.
It was just the 96-year-old monarch's third public appearance during the public festivities for her Platinum Jubilee.
Sunday's pageant began with a military parade of 200 horses flanking a gilded carriage that transported the queen to her coronation 69 years ago.
The queen did not join her family in the royal box watching the pageant.
Boisterous, colorful dancers in the street celebrated the queen's life and highlighting Britain's diversity.
Ed Sheeran sang his hits and the cast of the stage show Mamma Mia performed "Dancing Queen" outside Buckingham Palace as a finale.
Organizers say the pageant was likely to be watched by 1 billion people around the world.
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- Bolts come from behind to win Game 3 against the Rangers
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After trailing 2-0 in the second period, the Lightning rallied back to take the lead with just over 40 seconds left in the game. Listen to the postgame reaction from the team following the win.
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- Lightning Round: Tampa Bay Lightning Trivia Q&A
- Runtime
- 4:09
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Lightning fans answer Lightning trivia questions during the Eastern Conference Final between the Bolts and the New York Rangers.
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- Biden urges gun action to end the 'killing fields'
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- U.S. President #JoeBiden has delivered an impassioned plea to Congress to act on gun control. In an address to the nation Thursday night, he called on lawmakers to restore limits on the sale of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines after a string of mass shootings in the country.
Speaking at the White House, #Biden acknowledged the stiff political headwinds as he sought to drive uppressure on Congress to pass stricter gun limits after such efforts failed following past attacks.
He said if Congress won't embrace all of his proposals, they must at least find compromise on other measures, like limiting access to firearms to those with mental health issues or raising the age to buy assault-style weapons from 18 to 21.
"How much more carnage are we willing to accept," Biden said after last week's shootings by an 18-year-old gunman, who killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and another attack on Wednes...
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- House panel moves swiftly to take up gun bill
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The House is swiftly working to put its stamp on gun legislation in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York by 18-year-old assailants who used semi-automatic rifles to kill 31 people, including 19 children.
Partisan positions were clear at a Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on legislation that would raise the age limit for purchasing semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21.
The bill also would make it a federal offense to import, manufacture or possess large-capacity magazines and would create a grant program to buy back such magazines.
It builds on the administration's executive action banning fast-action “bump-stock” devices and “ghost guns” that are assembled without serial numbers.
The Democratic legislation, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, was quickly added to the legislative docket after last week's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. A vote by the full House could come as early as next week.
Howe...
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- Textile portraits celebrate Black women at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
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- 4:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- “I’m making the art that I wanted to see.”
That is how Bahamian artist Gio Swaby explained her textile-based portraits of Black women, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in her first museum solo exhibition, “Gio Swaby: Fresh Up.”
The exhibition is co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is co-curated by Katherine Pill and Melinda Watt. After the exhibition ends its run here, it will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in 2023.
The solo museum show is the latest rung on the ladder for Toronto-based artist Swaby, who is 30. Her first solo showing, in New York City at Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery, sold out. She’s been featured in The New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar.
Swaby deems her work love letters to Black women. Through self-portraits and portraits of friends and family, she explores the intersections o...
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- Rays' Kevin Kiermaier makes his Stanley Cup prediction
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Tampa Bay outfielder is a big Lightning fan. He talks about his love for the team and his expectations for them in the playoffs.
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- Lightning return to action in Eastern Conference Final against Rangers
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- 4:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After nine days off between games, Tampa Bay is set to face off against the New York Rangers for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final. It's expected to be a battle of strong defenses and a goaltender showdown between Andrei Vasilevskiy and Igor Shesterkin.
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- Funerals start in Uvalde as visitors pay respects
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break. Instead on Monday, the first two of 19 children murdered inside a classroom were being remembered at funeral visitations.
The gathering for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza was at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home in Uvalde, Texas, directly across from the grade school where the children, along with two teachers, were shot to death on Tuesday before the gunman himself was killed.
On Monday, some mourners at Amerie's visitation wore lilac or lavender shades of purple — Amerie's favorites — at the request of her father, Angel Garza. Many carried in flowers, including purple ones.
Esther Rubio called Uvalde home for 48-years. She now lives in San Antonio.
She is a friend of the gunman's grandmother, who was shot in the face by her grandson before he stormed the school.
"When I was reading their obituaries, I kne...
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- The Sketchbook Project art installation arrives in St. Pete
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Steven Peterman started The Sketchbook Project with a group of friends in 2006, while he was studying printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Atlanta campus. Through social media, they spread the word and sent participants blank sketchbooks, which were then returned and became part of the permanent collection.
Submission fees helped fund the project, which moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2009. In 2010, the project received 20,000 submissions.
In 2020, Peterman created the nonprofit Brooklyn Art Library, which housed the collection. Since its inception, there have been 19 volumes of the project, with submissions from around the world.
Peterman and his wife, Sara, moved to St. Petersburg a few years ago to be closer to family, and in 2019 opened Pete’s General Store in Historic Uptown. They eventually moved to a larger space, now called Pete’s Bagels in the Grand Central District.
The pandemic made going back a...
