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A teen ended up at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center
The site is not meant to house minors. The 15-year-old has since been relocated.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor presents nearly $2 billion budget
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor presented a nearly $2 billion recommended budget to the Tampa City Council on Thursday.
Castor wants to “invest in the basics,” with infrastructure and public safety a central focus.
Investors snapped up Tampa Bay homes damaged by hurricanes Helene and Milton
An aerial drone view looking west from Gulf Blvd towards the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in St. Pete Beach. On left is 77th Ave, in center is 78th Ave, on right is 79th Ave, with Gulf Blvd pictured at bottom. Several storm damaged homes on this block have sold since last hurricane season.
Thousands of properties have sold since last storm season. What happened to them?
Death penalty trial begins for man who bludgeoned ex-wife’s family to death
Shelby Nealy sits in court during jury selection for his death penalty trial at the Pinellas Couty Justice Center on Tuesday.
A jury will decide if Shelby John Nealy spends the rest of his life in prison or is executed by the state.
Amr Sharaki, 29, of Westchase, offers a menu to Raegan Gautreau, 26, who visited the The Big Coffee Cup Cafe mobile espresso bar with her baby, four-month-old Murphie Gautreau, during a stop at the Cypress Grand Apartments on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Tampa.
This big, pink coffee cup on wheels is slinging drinks around Tampa and beyond
Here’s the story behind the mobile coffee bar, and how to find it.
Florida reduces competency requirements for school media specialists
Some of the books that Florida pulled from school libraries in May 2023. After another recent uproar over books, the state changed requirements for media specialists.
Critics are concerned the state is looking for people to enact their agenda.
As historic Beach Theatre finally reopens, here are 5 things to know
Exterior view of the newly renovated Beach Theatre seen before the showing of the "Barbie" movie during a soft opening event on July 2 in St. Pete Beach.
Movies, live theater and much more are coming to St. Pete Beach. Here’s how one local family pulled it off.
Peanut farm that sought 700 acres of Florida state forest withdraws plan
Katherine Sayler, a biologist and Southeast representative with the nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife, hiked the Ellaville tract of the Twin Rivers State Forest on March 7, and documented this gopher tortoise burrow on the property. State wildlife officials led a gopher tortoise population count on this land in April 2017 and they found as many as 440 tortoises. This piece of land was part of a land swap proposal that would have been traded to a peanut farming operation.
Environmental advocates said the public lands are key habitat for a range of threatened Florida species.

SPORTS

If USF’s Bryce Archie opts for baseball, who backs up Byrum Brown?
• USF Bulls
USF quarterback Bryce Archie started the final eight games for the Bulls last season, leading the team to a 5-3 record in that span.
Rays’ Manny Rodriguez won’t be back soon, B-Lowe workout key to return
• Rays
Rays reliever Manny Rodriguez has been sidelined since June 10 with a right forearm strain.
Rays’ season can be saved, but only if the bullpen is rescued first
• Viewpoints
Rays fans are tired of seeing this. Manager Kevin Cash takes the ball from relief pitcher Edwin Uceta after another painful outing. Uceta's ERA was 1.51 last season, but has ballooned to 5.53 in 2025.
Another coaching milestone awaits Hillsborough High’s Earl Garcia
• HomeTeam
Earl Garcia turned Hillsborough High into a destination rather than a doormat. "He’s made Hillsborough County football what it is today," says Brian Emanuel, who played for Garcia at Gaither High and coached under him at Hillsborough.
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Rays’ season can be saved, but only if the bullpen is rescued first
• Viewpoints
Rays fans are tired of seeing this. Manager Kevin Cash takes the ball from relief pitcher Edwin Uceta after another painful outing. Uceta's ERA was 1.51 last season, but has ballooned to 5.53 in 2025.
Pulling drinking water from the air? Yes, it’s happening | Column
• Viewpoints
Florida's high humidity helps atmospheric water generation systems, which pull potable water from the air.
How am I doing? Maybe you don’t want to know | Column
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How does Florida have great schools and failing kids? | Column
• Viewpoints
The state's latest assessment shows that more than 40% of Florida's school children cannot handle grade-level work.
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Rays’ Manny Rodriguez won’t be back soon, B-Lowe workout key to return
• Rays
If USF’s Bryce Archie opts for baseball, who backs up Byrum Brown?
• USF Bulls
Florida reduces competency requirements for school media specialists
• Education
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor presents nearly $2 billion budget
• Tampa
A teen ended up at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center
• Politics
Another coaching milestone awaits Hillsborough High’s Earl Garcia
• HomeTeam
This big, pink coffee cup on wheels is slinging drinks around Tampa and beyond
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Mary Bolton, an entomology assistant trainee for Pinellas County Mosquito Control, examines a pile of black salt marsh mosquitoes, which are considered a nuisance species.
Mosquitoes are thriving in Tampa Bay. Inside the effort to stave them off.
As the heat rises and the rainy season kicks in, the pests hit their stride.
Jim Leavitt lost his USF coaching job in 2010 when a school probe determined he struck walk-on football player Joel Miller and grabbed him by the throat during halftime of a game the previous year.
As Jim Leavitt reconciles with USF, peace eludes Joel Miller’s family
Residents Reagan Woo Olsen, left, and April Self, right, live in Forest Hills and have struggled with the bureaucracy of hurricane recovery.
After Milton flooded this inland Tampa neighborhood, homes sit empty
Anthony Sleiman, a conservation photographer who documents the night sky over the Florida Everglades, said he took this photo around midnight on July 1. The glow of the state's new immigration detention facility, Alligator Alcatraz, can be seen nearby. Big Cypress National Preserve was named the nation's first "dark sky" preserve in 2016.
Darkness is crucial to Everglades habitat. Could Alligator Alcatraz threaten it?
Exterior view of the newly renovated Beach Theatre seen before the showing of the "Barbie" movie during a soft opening event on July 2 in St. Pete Beach.
As historic Beach Theatre finally reopens, here are 5 things to know

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