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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. 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.
  6. Federal officials end investigation into deadly Florida contractor
    • Investigations
    A worker with Archer Western Construction and Traylor Bros. Inc. labors on the new Howard Frankland Bridge on March 24, 2025 in Tampa. After more than two years, the federal government is ending its investigation into Archer Western, officials said.
  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. Man who hit, killed Pinellas deputy gets additional 2 years in prison
    • Crime
    Juan Molina-Salles, center, shares a letter of apology before Pinellas-Pasco Judge Pat Siracusa on March 4 during his state sentencing hearing. A federal judge sentenced him to an additional 25 months in prison on Tuesday.
  11. Tampa Bay’s Jewish community reacts to Sydney attack
    • Pinellas
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  12. Pinellas school board OK’s raises for all remaining employees
    • Education
    Pinellas County School Board member Laura Hine, shown at a March workshop, says employee raises would be negligible if voters had not approved the district's local-option property tax referendum.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Clearwater City Attorney David Margolis submits resignation letter
    • Clearwater
    In a resignation letter addressed to the City Council Friday, Clearwater City Attorney David Margolis said he intends for his last day of employment to be in April.
  16. Tarpon Springs wants your art — and will pay for it
    • Pinellas
    The Tarpon Springs Public Art Committee is seeking photographers to display work in illuminated art boxes, similar to this one, at the Sponge Docks. The committee is also looking for artists to paint murals on five storm drains throughout the city.
  17. Pinellas beach town leaders fight ‘catastrophic’ plan to cut property taxes
    • Pinellas
    Belleair Bluffs Mayor Chris Arbutine, Commissioner Suzy Sofer and City Administrator Debra Sullivan attend the Dec. 3 Barrier Island Government Council meeting at Indian Shores City Hall to speak about the dangers of the proposal to eliminate state property taxes in 2026.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Supply firm claims Hillsborough school district violated transparency laws
    • Education
    A cleaning supplies company is suing the district, claiming they have not followed sunshine law. CHRIS URSO/STAFF
  21. Florida inmates were denied eye surgery for years. Some were left blind
    • Health
    Florida inmates with bad eyesight because of cataracts and other issues were forced to wait years for surgery, state records show. Some were transported to the Reception and Medical Center, the state's prison hospital in Lake Butler for procedures that were then canceled. More than 1,000 inmates were on a wait list to get eye surgery in 2024.
  22. 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.
  23. Detectives investigating death of Pinellas jail inmate
    • Crime
    Detectives are investigating after a man being held at the Pinellas County Jail died Thursday.
  24. 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.
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