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  1. Despite deal for time served, Chinese immigrant remains jailed in Tampa
    • Crime
    Tingbo Zhang stands in a Tampa courtroom during a September hearing. Zhang, a Chinese immigrant, was low-level player in a case involving a chain of illicit Asian massage parlors. She pleaded guilty this month to money laundering and faces a likely deportation.
  2. 400 Central developer makes acting debut in new Timothée Chalamet movie
    • Entertainment
    Developer John Catsimatidis welcomes guests to The Residences at 400 Central on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, in St. Petersburg.
  3. Florida buys 340 acres from golf developer who sought state forest land
    • Environment
    Eugene Kelly, president of the Florida Native Plant Society, tracks a gopher tortoise hole at a Withlacoochee State Forest parcel adjacent to Cabot Citrus Farms near Brooksville in this September 2024 photo. Cabot recently sold 340 acres of land to the state of Florida.
  5. St. Petersburg braces for possible homestead property tax end
    • St. Petersburg
    Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing for property tax cuts in Florida, including possibly eliminating most of them on primary residences. Local governments, including St. Petersburg, are bracing for the possible elimination of property taxes on homesteaded properties and what the impacts would be on operating budgets, which mostly fund police and fire departments.
  6. Proposal would bring stadium, sports complex to Clearwater
    • Pinellas
    An aerial view of the Landings Golf Club with the Clearwater Airpark to the east. A new proposal submitted to the city calls for the course, open since 1970, to be replaced with a stadium and a sprawling sports campus.
  7. Pinellas County OKs redevelopment of flood-prone mobile home park
    • Environment
    A motorcycle is parked outside a vacant mobile home that was slated for demolition in this photo taken just before Halloween at the Twin City Mobile Home Park on Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg.
  8. 12 Tampa Bay food concepts we’re looking forward to in 2026
    • Food
    Central Park St. Pete, a new food hall in downtown St. Petersburg, will open early 2026.
  9. Behind the scenes of The Nutcracker in Tampa
    • Arts
    A scenery piece is laid out by the stage crew as they prepare for The Nutcracker at the Straz Center on Monday in Tampa.
  10. St. Petersburg EDM festival ‘noise’ is a concern, mayor says
    • St. Petersburg
    The St. Pete Pier and Spa Beach are seen as clouds are illuminated by the setting sun Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. St. Petersburg Police received noise complaints from the We Belong Here electronic music festival over the weekend. Mayor Ken Welch called the "noise" a "concern."
  11. Tampa Bay’s Jewish community reacts to Sydney attack
    • Pinellas
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  12. Tenants bid farewell to one of St. Petersburg’s last affordable rentals
    • Real Estate
    A view from the balcony at the Greenland Apartments, 115 Seventh Ave. N., in St. Petersburg. The nearly 70-year-old apartment complex in the Old Northeast neighborhood has offered cheap rent to tenants for decades. But the family that has owned the place for three generations has sold it to a local landlord, and for some, rent is set to double in January. Most tenants say they cannot afford to stay.
  13. Lanes of I-375 in St. Pete closed after reports of man being held at gunpoint
    • St. Petersburg
    St. Petersburg police closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 375 Monday after the received reports that a man was being held at gunpoint.
  14. St. Petersburg appoints first openly trans person to top city ranks
    • St. Petersburg
    Nathan Bruemmer is St. Petersburg's new LGBTQ+ Liaison. He is believed to be the first openly transgender person appointed to a high ranking position in City Hall.
  15. Leo Govoni assaulted in Pinellas jail, moved to Hernando facility
    • Health
    Leo Govoni, the Clearwater entrepreneur indicted after $100 million went missing from medical trust funds, is pictured outside a federal court in Tampa in April. He was transferred to Hernando County jail Nov. 26, three days after another inmate reported that he was beaten and robbed in the Pinellas County jail.
  16. Florida completes $83M purchase of 4 waterfront acres in Destin
    • Environment
    The state of Florida has officially closed on the purchase of 4 acres of waterfront land in Destin for more than $83 million. Conservation experts say the large purchase price raises unsettling questions.
  17. In St. Petersburg, seniors stay active with water aerobics
    • Photos
    Water aerobics instructor Apy Figueroa, legs in foreground, dances on the pool deck as she demonstrates the movement for her water aerobics class of about 25 seniors at the North Shore Aquatic Complex in St. Petersburg on Dec. 10. In front and center following along is Ellen Lewis, 70, from St. Pete.
  18. St. Petersburg grants Tangerine Plaza developers yearlong extension
    • St. Petersburg
    The former 39,900-square-foot grocery store sits empty at Tangerine Plaza in St. Petersburg on Aug. 18, 2021. The City Council voted to grant a yearlong extension to the Sugar Hill Group to line up financing and a grocer for the redevelopment of the plaza.
  19. Pinellas Commissioner Latvala returns after hospital stays
    • Pinellas
    Pinellas County Commissioner Chris Latvala speaks in 2022. He returned for Thursday's work session after spending the past few months battling health scares.
  20. Country Thunder Florida festival heads to St. Pete Beach this year
    • Music News
    The traveling music festival Country Thunder, shown here in 2021 in Orlando, is coming to St. Pete Beach in 2026.
  21. St. Petersburg gives Science Center revival the green light
    • St. Petersburg
    The exterior of the St. Petersburg Science Center on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg City Council voted unanimously to sell a 4-acre lot at 7701 22nd Ave N to the St. Petersburg Group, which has a plan to revive the defunct Science Center.
  22. Every Florida Congress member to Trump: Keep oil drilling away from our coast
    • Environment
    Oil is seen on the water at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on May 7, 2010. All 28 of Florida’s U.S. House members and both U.S. senators united Thursday in a bipartisan letter urging President Donald Trump to keep offshore oil drilling away from the state’s coastline.
  23. St. Petersburg property home to Enigma, Sweetgreen was sold. What’s in store?
    • Real Estate
    Dallas real estate investor 90Ten has purchased three buildings on the 1100 block of Central Avenue from PTM Partners. The company is looking for new retail tenants to fill two vacancies.
  24. Publishers Clearing House prize patrol hands out sweepstakes check in St. Petersburg
    • St. Petersburg
    Howie Guja, right, hands a Publisher’s Clearing House check for $10,000 to Patrick Bradley of St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
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