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  1. Florida Republican wins state House seat after opponent booted off of ballot
    Yesterday• Politics
    Adam Anderson of Palm Harbor will secure the House District 57 seat in north Pinellas after his only opponent was disqualified from the ballot on Sunday.
  2. Tampa Bay transit authority ponders its own future
    Yesterday• Transportation
    A rendering from WSP Engineering shows what a potential neighborhood station could look like for a 41-mile bus rapid transit line connecting Pasco, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.
  3. Pinellas School Board member Lisa Cane faces challenges from right and left
    Yesterday• Education
    From left, Brad DeCorte, incumbent Lisa Cane and Bronson Oudshoff are competing to represent District 2 on the Pinellas County School Board.
  5. Clearwater man beat and stabbed mother to death, police say
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    Logan Lopez, 24, was booked early Sunday in the Pinellas County Jail on a murder charge related to the death of his mother, Mary Beth Lopez, according to Clearwater police.
  6. Holocaust survivor died at 94. Here are 5 lessons she lived by.
    Jul. 16• Life & Culture
    Lisl Schick of Largo spoke to students at the Holocaust Museum about the night the Holocaust began. The historic night is called Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass. Schick was a girl living in Vienna on that night, Nov. 9, 1938, when Nazis burned synagogues and looted and destroyed Jewish-owned shops. The photos surrounding her are from that time, her parents, Lotte and Paul Porges on the left, and Schick at 11 and her brother, Walter Porges, 7.
  7. Pinellas rolls out BeBot, a beach-cleaning robot with a message for humans
    Jul. 16• Pinellas
    A remote-controlled robot named BeBot rolls over a patch of sand in Indian Shores during a cleanup demonstration on Thursday, July 14, 2022. BeBot is part of a campaign by Keep Pinellas Beautiful to raise awareness about debris left by humans that lurks under the beach surface and eventually winds up in the Gulf of Mexico.
  8. COVID-19 cases rise in Florida as BA.5 becomes the region’s dominant strain
    Jul. 16• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  9. Holding poses: Yoga instructor on ways to strengthen, heal and calm
    Jul. 16• St. Petersburg
    Longtime teacher Amanda Riker says practicing yoga keeps the spine healthy
  10. Man arrested in the slaying of Pinellas Park homeless man, police say
    Jul. 15• Pinellas
    The Pinellas Park Police Department arrested Miguel Alejandro Haisten, 31, Friday on a first-degree murder charge in connection to the death of 65-year-old Joseph Alan Maiden. Maiden was found dead in an abandoned Pinellas Park home Wednesday, according to police.
  11. Pinellas congressional hopeful Anna Paulina Luna sued over dog bite
    Jul. 15• Elections
    Republican congressional hopeful Anna Paulina Luna.
  12. Florida report on transgender care flawed, politically motivated, Yale experts say
    Jul. 14• Politics
    Jeanette Jennings, mother of transgender advocate Jazz Jennings, speaks in 2020 at a news conference in the Florida Capitol against a bill that would have made it a felony for doctors to provide minors with hormone therapy or to perform sex reassignment surgery. The bill did not pass but Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration is proposing a rule that would prevent the state’s Medicaid program from reimbursing providers for a series of therapies meant to treat gender dysphoria.
  13. 988 suicide crisis line is about to launch. Is Tampa Bay ready?
    Jul. 14• Health
    Thomas Young, right, takes a call from someone in need of counseling at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay in 2019. The crisis center is now preparing for a flood of calls to the 988 suicide crisis line.
  14. Which Florida Democrat hoping to replace DeSantis is raising more money off abortion?
    Jul. 14• Health
    Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Nikki Fried, left, who’s seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, has sought to paint her opponent Charlie Crist as anti-abortion.
  15. Body discovered in Pinellas Park, police investigating ‘suspicious death’
    Jul. 13• Crime
    A body was found in an abandoned home in Pinellas Park on Wednesday, according to police. Officers were called to a residence located in the 6000 block of Park Boulevard around 12:20 p.m., the Pinellas Park Police Department said in a news release Wednesday evening. Inside the home, they found the body of a male.
  16. Scientology says allegations should be addressed internally, not in court
    Jul. 13• Clearwater
    Scientology's lawyers are arguing this week in Tampa federal court that former Scientologists who level accusations must bring their cases before an internal arbitration panel of loyal church members — not to the U.S. court system.
  17. Man, 29, shot after illegally entering 2 homes in Largo, police say
    Jul. 13• Crime
    Officers from the Largo Police Department investigate a shooting early Wednesday. Police say that Jeffrey Smith, 29, was shot by a Largo resident after he forced his way into one home and tried to enter a second home before illegally entering a third home early Wednesday.
  18. Summer program helps ready Pinellas students for careers after graduation
    Jul. 13• Pinellas
    At right, Merric Grego, an operator trainee for Pinellas County Utilities, leads students through the aeration basin at the water treatment plant at 7401 54th Avenue N on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. The students were part of the Summer Career Acceleration Program, which Grego, 19, completed last year before landing a job.
  19. SunRunner, first bus rapid transit line in Tampa Bay, is opening in October
    Jul. 13• Transportation
    Brad Miller, chief executive of Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, announcing the launch day of Tampa Bay's first bus rapid transit system, July 13, 2022. The will SunRunner will open Oct. 22, 2022.
  20. Disney’s newest cruise ship grants pricey Wish
    Jul. 13• Travel
    The Disney Wish, which is provisioned at Port Canaveral, is the fifth ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, with its inaugural cruise for guests set for July 14.
  21. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Jul. 12• Pets
    Ironside and Morris are two of many animals hoping to find "fur"ever homes.
  22. Pinellas’ largest homeless shelter for families closes amid funding loss
    Jul. 12• Pinellas
    Grace House, the largest shelter for homeless families in Pinellas County, is closing its doors but will convert to an affordable housing complex by October. The Clearwater shelter, seen here Tuesday, has 80 beds in 14 apartments.
  23. St. Pete Pier among top 10 urban design projects in the Americas
    Jul. 12• St. Petersburg
    The St. Pete Pier at night on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 in St. Petersburg.
  24. Raymond James leader will head Pinellas Education Foundation board
    Jul. 12• Education
    Tash Elwyn, president and CEO of Raymond James & Associates, has been named chairperson of the Pinellas Education Foundation's board.
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