Gulfport, FL

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The St. Petersburg Police Department is investigating a crash that left two children dead on Friday afternoon. It happened shortly before 1 p.m. at the intersection of Tyrone Square Blvd. N. and Norfolk St. N., when a gray Nissan Rogue going northbound lost control and struck a tree.

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - A 65-year-old man died in a one-vehicle crash Thursday night in South Bradenton, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Troopers say the man left the Cortez Village Plaza parking lot at about 11:30 p.m., in his pickup truck, drove across the travel lanes of Cortez Road West and onto the south shoulder. The pickup traveled down an embankment and into a drainage ditch.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he will issue an executive order to prohibit school districts from imposing mask-wearing requirements as students return to classes in August. Scoffing at revised COVID-19 guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DeSantis questioned potential health effects of forcing students to wear masks for hours at a time and said parents should be allowed to decide whether their children use face coverings.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One person has died and another person suffered minor injuries after the scooter they were on was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Ybor City Friday morning. Police said the suspect, Jenalone Sisavat, 23, was arrested hours after the incident. According to police, the driver was...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Two people were injured Thursday night in Manatee County when their motorcycle hit a parked car, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Investigators say a pickup truck was angle parked and unoccupied, facing west along 61st Street East, near 28th Avenue East. Two people were riding a motorcycle eastbound at about 10:25 p.m., when they collided with the pickup.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Manatee County Administrator Dr. Scott Hopes says that between May 3 and July 30, 41 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among county employees. Manatee County closed the building for several days at the beginning of June after a rash of cases, including two deaths were reported in the building’s IT department.

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida now accounts for 20 percent of all new coronavirus cases in the u.s. And around 14 percent of covid-related deaths. Vaccination rates have slowed to a crawl as less than half of Florida residents are fully vaccinated. What You Need To Know. $1,000 pandemic bonuses to...

SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - A woman from Safety Harbor is living an online nightmare and wants to warn others of a seemingly simple hacking scheme. It started on Friday when Tiffany Carra got a message from a person she thought was one of her friends. They said they were having issues getting into their email and asked if Tiffany to help.

Choosing whether to get vaccinated can be a deeply personal decision. But for some people in the United States, it boils down to one thing — all three COVID-19 vaccines only have emergency use authorizations and are not yet fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Roughly 31%...

Sharks are gathering in the canals of Longboat Key, Florida, by the hundreds, likely to escape the red tide. Janelle Branowner told Fox 13 News she noticed numerous sharks of all sizes in the canals of Buttonwood Harbor. “It was like all of these fins and all of a sudden...