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Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Big Bend; Tampa Bay still swamped
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- Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Big Bend; Tampa Bay still swamped
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- 0:22
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- 2 years ago
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- TREASURE ISLAND — A few inches of water pooled in the streets of the Sunset Beach neighborhood Monday morning, though it did not rise to many doorsteps on Bayshore Drive about 10 a.m.
Outside, rough surf roared, turning this area’s normally teal waters to a frothy grey as waves smashed ashore. A few locals braved the winds to stand and the admire the swell from the walkovers.
Stiff gusts blew foam and spray through the sea oats, curling the “Keep Off” signs tacked on posts in the dunes. The Gulf churned below.
Waves swirled over the bottom steps of the walkovers.
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- Search on for trucker after 18-wheeler crashes into Tampa Bypass Canal off I-75
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- 0:33
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- 2 years ago
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- An 18-wheeler plunged into the Tampa Bypass Canal on I-75 in Hillsborough County early Monday morning, according to Hillsborough Fire Rescue.
First responders were called to the scene near Mile Marker 263 at 2:35 a.m. The first unit on scene found the 18-wheeler “teetering on the guard rail, with the cab still out of the water,” according to a fire rescue news release.
About 15 minutes after the call, the cab had become submerged. Fire Rescue was trying to get access to the cab.
“The number of patients and their injuries are currently unknown,” the news release states.
No other details were immediately available.
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- Live view of the Howard Frankland bridge as Tropical Storm Debby approaches Florida
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- 24:29
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- 2 years ago
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- Tropical Storm Debby is affecting Tampa Bay as the storm passes in the Gulf of Mexico, heading toward Florida's Big Bend.
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- Tropical Storm Debby brings rain and wind to Tampa Bay
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- 0:26
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- 2 years ago
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- Tropical Storm Debby brought rain and wind to the Tampa Bay area Sunday morning as the storm made its way toward Florida's Big Bend region. A construction crane in Tampa was spotted spinning in the wind.
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- Live view of the Howard Frankland bridge as Tropical Storm Debby approaches Florida
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- 0:00
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- 2 years ago
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- Tropical Storm Debby is affecting Tampa Bay as the storm passes in the Gulf of Mexico, heading toward Florida's Big Bend.
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- Watch: Robbers use sledgehammer to break open jewelry cases at WestShore Plaza mall
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Two robbers used a sledgehammer to break display cases at a WestShore Plaza Mmall jewelry store during a brazen robbery late Wednesday morning.
The robbery occurred just before noon at Prince Jewelry.
Surveillance video shows one robber swinging a sledgehammer into display cases while another robber is in the background. The robbers also had pepper spray, which they used to threaten employees and mall security, Tampa police reported.
No one was injured.
The robbers, whose faces were covered, stole “numerous pieces of jewelry” and drove away in a silver Chevy Malibu that was parked near Dick’s Sporting Goods. Police said the car is believed to be a newer model and has a sunroof and tinted windows.
Police said anyone with information about the robbers can call 813-231-6130 or share an anonymous tip via Tip411, accessible through the TampaPD app.
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- Pilots said nothing as Southwest plane flew dangerously low over Tampa Bay, passengers say
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- 1:33
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- 2 years ago
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- Southwest Airlines Flight 425 was cruising over the waters of Tampa Bay the evening of July 14 when passengers were startled by a sharp jolt upward.
What passengers weren’t told at the time is that the plane’s rapid descent toward the water put them one wind gust away from disaster, according to aviation experts.
The incident began around 7 p.m. that Sunday more than four miles out from Tampa International Airport as the plane dipped below the clouds and took a final descent that felt normal to most on board.
The descent stopped when air traffic control radioed the plane with a low altitude alert. The aircraft flew within 150 feet of the water — just over the length of the plane’s wingspan — before climbing back to safety.
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- Man on scooter hits, kills bird while driving near protected colony
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- 0:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Last Friday, it was not a natural predator that Robert Truesdell recorded bothering the colony of birds that reside on Redington Beach, and ultimately killing one. Instead, it was a man on an electric scooter.
According to an Indian Shores Police Department report, the man drove through the birds’ nesting site at a “high rate of speed.” Truesdell provided the video to police, showing the man driving his scooter over a bird.
The video shows the bird flailing in the sand, and later the bird’s wing bent unnaturally.
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- Pinellas drug operation and dog fighting ring busted, cops say
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- 0:29
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- 2 years ago
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- Pinellas law enforcement leaders say that after a year-long investigation, they have broken up criminal operations that orchestrated large-scale drug trafficking and dog fighting in the county.
The investigations uncovered hundreds of pounds of drugs that were delivered in the county and more than 100 dogs used for fighting that were found in crowded cages. The results of the investigation, which included the arrests of 23 people, were announced at a news conference at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday afternoon.
The St. Petersburg Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement also were involved in the investigations.
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- Dogs rescued from electric scooter fire inside Tampa home
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- 0:40
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- 2 years ago
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- An electric scooter sparked a house fire Friday night in Tampa, forcing firefighters to rescue three dogs trapped inside.
Tampa Fire Rescue officials responded to the fire in the 1200 block of E 108th Avenue to find heavy smoke coming from one of several scooters spread around the single-story home. They moved some of the scooters to the front yard, where one caught fire and was quickly extinguished.
No people were inside at the time of the fire, but firefighters did find three dogs and removed them from the home, reuniting them with their owner. The dogs were uninjured, and no other injuries were reported.
Video provided by Tampa Fire Rescue shows sparks flying from the bike as firefighters carry the dogs from the scene.
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- An hour east of crowded Tampa, a search is underway for endangered Florida panthers
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- 0:27
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- 2 years ago
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- Sixty miles east of downtown Tampa, deep in a flatwood forest of pine trees and saw palmettos, a camera is tied to a tree.
About the size of a tissue box and camouflaged like a slash pine, this hidden device in recent weeks has captured some remarkable scenes of untouched Florida wilderness.
But the most important footage this camera has documented came on April 19 — and again two weeks later. A male Florida panther, one of the estimated 200 of its kind left in the wild, struts past under the veil of nightfall. He has a limp, but otherwise appears in healthy shape.
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- Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after loud noises rang through the crowd
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing out. Trump could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his neck. There appeared to be blood on his face.
He quickly ducked behind the podrium as agents from his protective detail rushed the stage and screams rang out from the crowd. The bangs continued as agents tended to him on stage.
The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.
His motorcade has left the venue. His condition was not immediately known.
Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left the stage.
The U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies did not immediately respond to messages.
Leaving Mass in Rehoboth Beach, President Joe Biden simply responded, “No,” when asked if he’d bee...
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- Here’s how you can visit Cuba without stepping foot out of Tampa Bay
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- 1:15
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- 2 years ago
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- Want to visit Cuba without having to get a passport? Visit José Martí Park in Tampa.
When you are crossing into the park, you are technically crossing Cuban property.
The small, fenced park owned by Cuba sits on the corner of East 8th Avenue and North 13th Street in historic Ybor.
It even contains soil from provinces in Cuba, so you will be standing on Cuban soil when visiting the park, according to author Rhonda Villamia.
For nearly six decades, it was the only piece of Cuban-owned land in the United States until the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., was built in 2015, according to Visit Tampa Bay.
The park pays tribute to José Martí who is considered the George Washington of Cuba for his role in inspiring the nation’s residents to revolt against Spain.
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- Beryl feasted on record-hot water. Here’s why that matters for Florida
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Hurricane Beryl’s record strength for such an early-forming storm has scientists sounding alarms about the Atlantic Ocean, where waters are hotter than ever and show no signs of cooling down.
Typically, the most intense hurricanes don’t come until late summer. But Beryl swelled into the earliest Category 5 hurricane and strongest July storm in recorded history in the Atlantic. It was fueled by ocean waters already “as warm as they’d be at the peak of the season,” blogged University of Miami researcher Brian McNoldy.
Throughout 2024, particularly in the tropics, the water’s heat has been historic. “Every other week this year has been the warmest North Atlantic on record, and that’s going back to 1850,” said Matthew Rosencrans, lead hurricane season forecaster at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center.
The warmer water provides more fuel to tropical storms, helping them balloon into major hurr...
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- Hurricane season 2024: Here's what to know
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- 0:56
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- 2 years ago
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- Hurricane season is among us, known for disastrous flooding and high-speed winds in coastal areas of the United States and in the Caribbean and Central America.
Nationwide, emergency management officials are urging residents to stay prepared.
Unlike previous hurricane seasons, this summer brings record hot temperatures nationwide and an early onset of storms.
Since the start of this week, Hurricane Beryl broke records as the first Category 4 storm to form in the Atlantic Ocean in June — which is abnormally early compared to how hurricanes have trended in the past.
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- An ocean drone recorded video in Hurricane Beryl. Here’s what it saw.
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the hours after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou, a floating ocean drone intercepted the northern edge of the historically powerful storm in the violent Caribbean Sea.
The uncrewed research vessel, dubbed a saildrone, crossed paths with Hurricane Beryl 100 nautical miles south of Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, according to California-based data company Saildrone Inc. The drone was less than 100 nautical miles from the Category 5 storm’s eye.
Dramatic footage documented by the drone shows waves towering over 25 feet tall, the same size of the saildrone if it was flipped vertically. The vehicle was in tropical storm conditions as gusts blew around 61 mph, according to the company.
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- Florida arts groups left in the lurch by DeSantis' veto of state funding for theaters and museums
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- 1:36
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- 2 years ago
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- All over Florida, arts groups have been left scrambling to plug large budget gaps after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this month unexpectedly vetoed $32 million in arts funding.
Advocates say the lack of state funding is going to devastate arts and culture in the Sunshine State.
Arts leaders across the state say it’s the first time they recall a governor eliminating all of their grant funding.
It comes at a time when arts organizations that survived closures from the COVID-19 pandemic are still recovering with smaller attendance and revenues.
A DeSantis spokeswoman says the governor makes veto decisions that are in the best interest of Florida citizens.
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- What to know about water safety before heading to the beach or pool this summer
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- 1:10
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- 2 years ago
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- With temperatures rising across the country and school out for summer, many families will be spending time at the beach, lake or local swimming pool.
Now is the time to review safety tips to keep children safe around water.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4. It's also the second leading cause of unintentional death for those ages 5 to 14.
Safe Kids Worldwide says in the U.S., 973 children under age 19 drowned in 2021.
So before you head to the beach or pool, spend some time going over procedures and tips to keep children safe.
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- Floridians taste ‘lab-grown’ meat for last time before state ban
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- 1:53
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- 2 years ago
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- As Florida's ban on "lab-grown” meat is set to go into effect next week, one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah — at least for now — with a cultivated meat-tasting party in Miami.
California-based Upside Foods hosted dozens of guests Thursday evening at a rooftop reception in the city's Wynwood neighborhood, known for its street art, breweries, nightclubs and trendy restaurants.
“It's like eating chicken breast,” said Nidal Barake, an event attendee, immediately after biting into the cultivated chicken dish on offer.
“If you tell me it's cultivated chicken or real chicken, I wouldn't tell the difference,” he added.
The U.S. approved the sale of what's now being called “cell-cultivated” or “cell-cultured” meat for the first time in June 2023, allowing Upside Foods and another California company, Good Meat, to sell cultivated chicken.
Earlier this year, both Florida and Alabama banned the sale of cultivated m...
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- Hurricane Beryl strengthens into a Category 4 storm as it nears the southeast Caribbean
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an "extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it approached the southeast Caribbean, which began shutting down Sunday amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.
The storm was expected to make landfall in the Windward Islands on Monday morning. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
“This is a very dangerous situation,” warned the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which said that Beryl was “forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge.”
Beryl was located about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Barbados. It had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 18 mph (30 kph). It is a compact storm, with hurricane-force winds extending 35 miles (340 kilometers) from its center.
A tropical storm warning was in effect for Martiniq...
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- Why are there so many murals in St. Petersburg? A brief history
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- 1:28
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- 2 years ago
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- ST. PETERSBURG — The Sunshine City boasts an eclectic art scene. But residents no longer have to visit popular downtown spots like the Dalí Museum or the Museum of Fine Arts to appreciate visual masterpieces. With more than 500 public murals, St. Pete has become an explosion of spray paint.
Street art wasn’t always appreciated. It was often associated with graffiti, which is illegal, whereas murals are commissioned with owners’ approval. In fact, the 21st century mural movement is an outgrowth of and response to graffiti.
“Taggers almost never would tag a mural artist’s work,” said John Collins, the former executive director of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance.
These days, there hardly seems to be a bare brick around Central Avenue.
St. Pete’s public art renaissance blossomed in the early 2010s. At a time when the city wasn’t as developed and considered relatively affordable, local artists gravitated toward the histor...
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- Female capybara goes to Florida as part of a breeding program for the large South American rodents
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- 1:04
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- 2 years ago
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- A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents.
Iyari, a 10-month-old capybara, came to the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society in May from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
She’s currently staying in a mixed-species habitat with a couple of Baird’s tapirs, which live in similar habitats in South America, while zoo workers slowly introduce her to the park’s 2-year-old male capybara, Zeus.
Capybara gestation is about five months with an average litter of four.
Palm Beach Zoo officials aren’t sure when to expect baby capybaras.
They say it will all depend on how long it takes Iyari and Zeus to get to know each other.
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- Here come the brides: St. Petersburg is the new bachelorette party hot spot
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- 2:12
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- 2 years ago
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- ST. PETERSBURG — Women stormed into Ferg’s as a blur of sequins, slicing through the crowd of sweaty T-shirts in their rented white dresses. Down the street at Dirty Laundry, another party sprinted to the dance floor like a color-coordinated herd of gazelles at the opening notes of “Gasolina.” Over at The One Night Stand, others contemplated a mechanical bull ride.
The bachelorette parties have taken over St. Petersburg.
The bride tribes come from Louisville and Cleveland, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. They fly in for the beaches, the chartered tiki boats, the picturesque downtown bars with neon signs and silk flower walls. Reporters from the Tampa Bay Times spotted at least 13 bachelorette parties during one recent Friday night out in downtown St. Pete. Of the six groups that were interviewed, all but one cited TikTok as an inspiration.
Read more at https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/entertainment/2024/06/27/here-come-brides-st-pet...
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- Eyewitness video shows sick and dying sawfish from mysterious die-off in Tampa Bay
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- 0:42
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- 2 years ago
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- A Tampa Bay area kayak guide filmed this video of a sick and dying endangered sawfish in Boca Ciega Bay on Friday, June 21, 2024.
Researchers confirm this is the northernmost sawfish affected by a bizarre die-off centered in the Florida Keys.
This 10-foot-long animal washed up dead three days later nearby where this video was filmed.
More than 50 dead sawfish have died so far this year as scientists try to scramble to find out what is killing these rare animals and causing them to act erratically.
Read more at tampabay.com/environment
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- Researchers catch and tag first healthy adult smalltooth sawfish in the Tampa Bay area
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- 0:19
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- 2 years ago
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- This endangered smalltooth sawfish was caught by a team of researchers offshore of Pinellas County on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.
It’s the first adult sawfish caught by scientists in the Tampa Bay area. It comes at a pivotal moment: scientists will compare the blood of this healthy sawfish to the blood of sawfish that are continuing to die in the Florida Keys.
This animal was caught and released safely.
Read more at tampabay.com/environment
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- Ocean rescue lifeguard stresses the importance of swimming on guarded beaches
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- 0:59
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- 2 years ago
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- Stinging jellyfish, rays with their whip-like tails and sharks on the hunt are some ocean hazards that might typically worry beachgoers.
But rip currents are the greatest danger and account for the most beach rescues every year.
Officials say six people drowned in rip currents over a recent two-day period in Florida, including a couple vacationing on Hutchinson Island from Pennsylvania with their six children and three young men on a Panhandle holiday from Alabama.
About 100 people drown from rip currents along U.S. beaches each year.
That is according to the U.S. Lifesaving Association. And more than 80 percent of beach rescues annually involve rip currents.
Daniel Barnickel with Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue says it's nearly impossible to fight the current directly.
Many swimmers who get in trouble tire themselves out trying to get back to the beach, lifeguards say.
Barnickel encourages all ocean swi...
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- St. Pete Pride parade returns amid record-breaking heat
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- 1:34
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- 2 years ago
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- The St. Pete Pride parade and festival returns to the downtown waterfront. It’s the most popular event during St. Petersburg’s monthlong celebration, which Visit St. Pete/Clearwater calls the largest Pride event in the Southeast. If you’re one of the 300,000 or so folks heading out to celebrate this weekend, here’s what you need to know.
The festival — featuring vendors, food trucks and a family area — runs from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. today in Straub Park, located at Beach Drive and Fifth Avenue NE.
The Trans March kicks off in Vinoy Park at 5:30 p.m. Next, the St. Pete Pride Parade starts at 6 p.m. from Albert Whitted Park. It will head north to Vinoy Park along Bayshore Drive.
Read live updates: https://www.tampabay.com/live-coverage/2024/06/22/st-pete-pride-parade-route-guide-updates/
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- Across Florida, residents fear impact of higher Duke, Tampa Electric rates
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- 2:34
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- 2 years ago
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- TAMPA — They came from homes where air conditioners sat silent, relief from the heat a luxury they can no longer afford. They came between shifts — cleaning houses, installing floors, pouring drinks — earning wages that no longer stretch as far as they need. They came exasperated, after shelling out for solar panels only to still feel the pinch of energy costs.
For hours in three different counties last week, Tampa Bay residents implored state utility regulators to say no to higher rates in their electric bills. These local, in-person hearings are so rare they haven’t happened for Duke Energy and Tampa Electric customers in more than a decade. Additional virtual hearings wrapped up Tuesday.
The Public Service Commission meetings offered a raw glimpse into a region where an affordable housing crisis, inflation and high electric costs collide. Dozens of residents told a governor-appointed commission how their families’ finances teetered. Higher electri...
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- Demolition of the Parkland classroom building where 17 died in 2018 shooting begins
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- 1:30
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- 2 years ago
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- A large excavator stretched up and punched out a window on the top floor of a three-story classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland, Florida’s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a long-awaited demolition got underway.
About 100 yards away, some victims' family members watched, and took photos and videos Friday morning.
Officials plan to complete the weekslong project before the school’s 3,300 students return in August from summer vacation.
Most were in elementary school when the shooting happened.
The building had been kept up to serve as evidence at the shooter's 2022 penalty trial. Jurors toured its bullet-pocked and blood-stained halls, but spared the gunman a death sentence.
He's serving a term of life without parole.
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- An iconic Disney World ride is officially gone. What’s its replacement like?
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- 2 years ago
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- ORLANDO — On June 28, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will officially drop at Disney’s Magic Kingdom — 50 feet, to be exact.
The log-flume voyage, based on Disney’s 2009 animated film “The Princess and the Frog,” replaces one of the park’s most iconic rides, Splash Mountain. The new ride begins where the film’s story ended in 1920s New Orleans, updating the 30-year-old ride that was inspired by and featured characters from the controversial 1946 Disney film “Song of the South.”
The movie faced criticism for its racist stereotypes and glorification of plantation life. Disney’s decision to shut down Splash Mountain came in June 2020 around the same time as the Black Lives Matter movement.
Both attractions share the same ride track, including the iconic 50-foot plunge, but the rest has been entirely re-imagined.
Read more at: https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/entertainment/theme-parks/2024/06/12/disney-tiana-new-orlea...
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- Heavy rainfall leaves some Miami streets flooded
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- 0:46
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- 2 years ago
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- A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida as residents prepared to weather more heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday's downpours and subsequent flooding blocked roads, floated vehicles and delayed the Florida Panthers on their way to Stanley Cup games in Canada against the Edmonton Oilers.
The disorganized storm system was pushing across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico at roughly the same time as the early June start of hurricane season, which this year is forecast to be among the most active in recent memory amid concerns that climate change is increasing storm intensity.
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- Locals recount experiences with flood in South Florida
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A tropical disturbance that brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida delayed flights at two of the state’s largest airports and left vehicles waterlogged and stalled in some of the region’s lowest-lying streets.
“Looked like the beginning of a zombie movie,” said Ted Rico, a tow truck driver who spent much of Wednesday night and Thursday morning helping to clear the streets of stalled vehicles. “There’s cars littered everywhere, on top of sidewalks, in the median, in the middle of the street, no lights on. Just craziness, you know. Abandoned cars everywhere.”
In Hallandale Beach, Alex Demchemko, was walking his Russian spaniel Lex along the still-flooded sidewalks near the Airbnb where he’s lived after arriving from Russia last month to seek asylum in the U.S.
"To be honest, yesterday was kind of disaster. It was all day round raining. We didn't come out from our apartments because we were scared,” Demchem...
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- At Odessa sanctuary, this goat is smiling for a good reason
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ODESSA — At Ladybug Farm Sanctuary, every goat has a story.
Able was born with his hind legs twisted backwards. The owner of the 3-acre Odessa sanctuary found the goat, now a year old, being sold on Craigslist for $50. She purchased him and fundraised for corrective surgery and a wheelchair.
Xyla, which means wood dweller, once lived in a Westchase forest. She smiles, sometimes on command.
Bolt earned his name by taking off down Plant City’s Highway 92 when the trapper came.
As for the sanctuary’s newest resident, Billy G, he’s a bit of a mystery. Living wild in Temple Terrace, he seems to have as many lives as a cat: local lore is that he escaped a religious ritual and regularly avoided becoming an alligator’s meal — but more on that soon.
The sanctuary at 12536 Tyler Run Ave. has other animals that make up its population of more than 75, if you count the ducks and chickens. Over the years, about 80 goats hav...
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- WATCH: Speeding driver causes multicar crash on Howard Frankland Bridge, troopers say
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A 19-year-old Spring Hill man was arrested on a charge of reckless driving Wednesday after troopers say he hit a car and caused it to overturn off the Howard Frankland Bridge into the construction zone below.
Around 5:20 p.m., the man was driving a Ford Focus east in the inside lane of Interstate 275 on the bridge, “traveling recklessly, at a high rate of speed, changing lanes in between cars and making other drivers take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision,” the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Near milepost 34, the man overtook a Lexus RX350 in the outside lane, driven by a 74-year-old Sarasota woman. The man then moved into the outside shoulder to try to pass the woman in the Lexus. Due to the construction zone, the man had no space to pass and was forced back into the travel lane, colliding with the Lexus, troopers say.
After the impact, the Lexus rotated, collided with a guardrail, overturned off the bridge and struck a N...
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- Florida's 2024 hurricane season arrives with a rainy deluge
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- 0:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Dangerous flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated much of southern Florida, blocking roads, floating vehicles and delaying travelers.
The disorganized storm system was pushing across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, bringing extended periods of heavy rain across much of the state.
In Fort Lauderdale, the mayor declared a state of emergency late Wednesday afternoon, due to flooded thoroughfares near the city's downtown.
In nearby Hollywood, drivers also encountered rising water across residential streets for much of the afternoon.
Numerous roads were flooded and impassable for vehicles.
On major artery Interstate 95 in Broward County, southbound traffic was being diverted around a flooded section and contractors were on their way to pump the drainage system, the Florida Highway Patrol said in an email.
The interstate wouldn't reopen until after water is drained, the agency said.
The d...
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- Community members commemorate anniversary of Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando
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- 0:56
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- 2 years ago
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- Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Florida gathered at an Orlando church on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the attack which left 49 people dead.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen opened fire during a Latin night celebration, leaving 49 dead and 53 wounded.
At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. But it was surpassed the following year when 58 people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000 at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, was killed after a three-hour standoff with police.
Survivors and the families of victims of the attack had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place for Wednesday's anniversary.
Instead, new, scaled-back plans are only now getting off the ground following a botched effort to build a multimillion-dollar memorial and museum by ...
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- Hurricane season 2024: Checklist for building a storm kit
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Don’t let it be you who has to dash in a panic to the grocery store to fight over the last few gallons of water, granola bars or batteries left on the shelves as a hurricane looms off our coast.
Nor should that be you waiting in a snaking, three-hour line at the pump as the storm creeps closer so you can fill your gas cans. Or trying desperately to find a place to bring your kids, your pets or old Aunt Mabel as the highways clog.
As Floridians, we’re supposed to be more clever than that. We’re stocked up on water, food and other supplies well ahead of time. We know to keep our gas tanks filled — and have a few cans in the shed filled, too — as soon as the first forecaster utters “convection” and “Tampa Bay” in the same sentence. We have a plan for where to take the family, the pets and Mabel.
And yet …
Every year, it seems, it’s the same old story: We get complacent, we watch the forecasts, we say this one will p...
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- Boeing launches NASA astronauts for the first time after years of delay
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.
A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the International Space Station, the first to fly the new spacecraft.
The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday. They will spend just over a week at the orbiting lab before climbing back into Starliner for a remote desert touchdown in the western U.S. on June 14.
Years late because of spacecraft flaws, Starliner’s crew debut comes as the company struggles with unrelated safety issues on its airplane side.
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- Trump arrives in Florida following conviction
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Former US President Donald Trump arrived in Florida on Sunday, days after his conviction for a hush money payment in New York.
The former president was greeted by dozens of cheering supporters at West Palm Beach airport, where his plane landed shortly after 10:00pm local time.
Supporters earlier held a rally and caravan near Trump's residence of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
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- A medical mystery: Why does Central Florida see so many leprosy cases?
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Leprosy remains rare in the U.S. But Florida, which often reports the most cases of any state, has seen an uptick in patients.
The epicenter is east of Orlando.
Brevard County reported a staggering 13% of the nation’s 159 leprosy cases in 2020, according to a Times analysis of state and federal data.
Many questions about the phenomenon remain unanswered. But leprosy experts believe armadillos play a role in spreading the illness to people.
Scientists are trying to solve the medical mystery.
“If we better understand it,” UF veterinarian Juan Campos Krauer said, “the better we can learn to live with it and reduce the risk.”
Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2024/05/23/medical-mystery-why-does-central-florida-see-so-many-leprosy-cases/
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- Outside Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Florida residents have mixed views on conviction
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of his historic hush money trial but the fight over the case is far from over.
Now comes the sentencing and the prospect of a prison sentence.
Outside of Trump Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump supporter Debbie Macchia from Florida said the conviction doesn't affect her feelings about the former president at all and Trump did nothing wrong.
"We don't know what's going to happen next, but we'll prevail. We're not worried. We're here to support the president like we always do and that's it, simple as that," Macchia said.
The presumptive Republican nominee still has to deal with three more criminal cases and a campaign that could see him return to the White House.
Luke Waterman also waved a sign near Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and said Trump is a "despicable human being." But he says Trump's upcoming criminal cases are weightier than this one.
The...
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- WATCH: Man lands helicopter on protected bird nests on Egmont Key
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A Bradenton man caused dozens of protected shorebirds to flee their nests when he landed his company’s helicopter earlier this month on the southern tip of Egmont Key State Park, a protected area where tens of thousands of birds have gathered for breeding season, according to Florida wildlife officials.
Video of the incident, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times, shows the helicopter’s whirring rotors stirring up sand and flocks of shorebirds retreating from their beach nests on the restricted wildlife refuge May 12. Shortly after landing, a woman exited the helicopter and started taking photos, according to a Florida wildlife incident report.
Ernesto Cordero, 53, was piloting the helicopter and was cited with harassing state-threatened species, landing an aircraft in a state park and entering into a closed area, according to the incident report.
Cordero told investigators that he landed at the state park because “he could smell fuel and believed...
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- St. Pete Beach district fire chief arrested after assaulting cyclist, deputies say
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A St. Pete Beach Fire Department district chief was arrested Thursday after he assaulted and battered a cyclist during a road rage incident on Gulf Boulevard in Redington Shores, deputies said.
Pinellas deputies arrested Thomas McClave about 5 p.m. on charges of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and simple battery after the encounter, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
McClave, 55, of Seminole was off duty and driving his personal vehicle, a 2017 Chevrolet pickup, south on Gulf Boulevard near 175th Avenue when he came up behind a cyclist riding in the shared travel lane. McClave pulled up beside the cyclist, 58-year-old Gregory Hicks, and yelled for him to get out of the roadway, deputies said.
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- Florida murder trial put innocent teen in prison. Then came DNA.
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In Tampa’s high-crime 1980s, 18-year-old Robert DuBoise lived a modest life, working, hanging out and helping his parents. Then it was all cast into chaos.
DuBoise had juvenile run-ins with the cops, but nothing prepared him for his arrest on charges he’d raped and murdered a young mall employee and left a distinct bite mark on her cheek.
He served 37 years in prison. But his 2020 exoneration helped reveal what authorities call a vicious spree of serial killings, the links between them buried deep in case files and a medical examiner’s cabinet for decades.
When he walked free, much lay ahead: his bid for compensation, a search for the true killers, a political power struggle — and the question of how to salvage what was left of his life.
Our reporters spent months researching DuBoise’s sensational trial, harrowing imprisonment and unlikely exoneration.
Dive into our special report: https://www.tampabay.com/news...
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- Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this year
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.
There's an 85% chance that the Atlantic hurricane season that starts in June will be above average in storm activity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday in its annual outlook.
The weather agency predicted between 17 and 25 named storms will brew up this summer and fall, with 8 to 13 achieving hurricane status (at least 75 mph sustained winds) and four to seven of them becoming major hurricanes, with at least 111 mph winds.
An average Atlantic hurricane season produces 14 named storms, seven of them hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
“This season is looking to be an extraordinary one in a number of ways,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said. He said this forecast is the busiest that NOAA has seen for one of their May outloo...
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- At least 22 dead in US Memorial Day weekend storms
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages.
The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and were just north of an oppressive, early season heat wave setting records from south Texas to Florida.
Forecasters said the severe weather could shift to the East Coast later Monday and warned millions of people outdoors for the holiday to watch the skies. A tornado watch was issued from North Carolina to Maryland.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who earlier declared a state of emergency, said at a Monday press conference that five people had died in his state. The fifth death was a 54-year-old man who had a heart attack while cutting fallen trees in Caldwell County in western Kentucky, the governor’s office said.
The death toll of 22 also included s...
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- A bear makes its way through Oldsmar. Could it be the same one spotted in Tampa?
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A black bear was captured on video wandering around Oldsmar Thursday night.
“I was really shocked. I’ve been in Florida since 1988 and I’ve never seen a bear around here,” Yan Li told the Times on Saturday. Her Ring camera captured the animal at the bottom of her driveway in the Bay’s End neighborhood of Oldsmar.
“It was as big as the trash can. I was shaking.”
Li hasn’t seen the bear since Thursday. But her husband has been carrying a stick at night when he walks their husky.
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- Bear caught on video in Oldsmar, Tampa: Could it be the same animal?
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A black bear tried to get into an Oldsmar woman’s trash can Thursday night.
Saturday morning, while wildlife officers were attempting to find it, a bear lumbered through an apartment complex on Tampa Shores Boulevard — more than seven miles away.
It could be the same bear, said Forest Rothchild, spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Adult bears can travel up to 15 miles a day.
“Something similar happened last year, about this same time, around the same place,” Rothschild said. In June 2021, officials closed Philippe Park in Safety Harbor after a bear was spotted there.
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- St. Petersburg police investigate vandalism of downtown LGBTQ+ street mural
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- 0:42
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- 2 years ago
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- Police are investigating two cases of vandalism to an LGBTQ+ street mural in downtown St. Petersburg.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on May 17, a truck accelerated through the Progressive Pride street mural, located at the roundabout at 2500 Central Avenue, the St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release.
A “more egregious incident” occurred at 2:41 a.m. Wednesday, when surveillance footage captured a blue, two-door vehicle spinning out and doing doughnuts over the mural, the news release states.
Investigators do not believe the incidents are related. The police department said it will cost the city $1,100 to restore the mural, making it a felony case of criminal mischief.
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- Memorial Day travel expected to be its busiest in nearly 20 years
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- 1:24
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- 2 years ago
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- Highways and airports are likely to be jammed this weekend, as Americans head out on Memorial Day weekend getaways.
AAA says this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years. The Transportation Security Administration says there could be 3 million people passing through airport checkpoints on Friday. And that’s just a sample of things to come. U.S. airlines are expecting to carry a record number of travelers this summer. Their trade group estimates that 271 million passengers will fly between June 1 and August 31, breaking the record of 255 million set last summer.
AAA forecasts that 43.8 million travelers will travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday and Monday. That would be 4% more than the auto club and insurance company predicted last year and nearly match its highest forecast, 44 million in 2005.
Most of those people are expected to travel by car – more than 38 million of them. AAA says its forecasts, done w...
