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Driver wants FDOT to pay for damage caused by flying debris on I-75
A Florida couple said the Florida Department of Transportation should reimburse them after a flying object hit their Jeep on I-75. They have waited six months for money spent on rentals and repairs.
Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society brings a piece of Fire Island to St. Petersburg
(Photos by Meryl Meisler) Each May, thousands of New Yorkers take the ferry to Fire Island for their summer vacations. The car-free paradise, a well-known gay sanctuary since the 1920s, is a hotbed of queer history, art, literature and tradition. Decades after its formative years, summer still brings tea dances, drag invasions and LGBTQ+ artists to the Island — and this year, a piece of the action comes to St. Pete.
Tampa now has a racial reconciliation committee. Here are the members.
Last month, the Tampa City Council unanimously approved the formation of a committee tasked with examining and addressing persistent racial inequities in Florida’s third-largest city. The formation of the 13-person Race Reconciliation Committee came more than three years after the council formally apologized for the city’s racist past. The...
Police arrest man accused in Pinellas Park hit-and-run that left 1 man critically injured
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — The suspected driver involved in a Pinellas Park hit-and-run crash that left a man seriously injured has been arrested, police say. The crash happened around 4 a.m. Thursday, May 9 in the area of 66th Street near 94th Avenue, where Pinellas Park Police say they found 46-year-old Dominick Venose lying in the roadway.
Clearwater hit-and-run victim dies, suspect to face upgraded charges
CLEARWATER, Fla. - The 80-year-old man hospitalized after a hit-and-run in Clearwater on Monday has died, according to police. Investigators say Ernest Coluzzi was hit by a Dodge Ram pickup truck while riding a mobility scooter at the intersection of Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard and Hampton Road. Paramedics rushed Coluzzi to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, where he was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon.
Dunedin presents annual awards to schools, teachers
DUNEDIN — Where would the city be without school teachers? That was the rhetorical question raised by City Commissioner Moe Freaney on May 2, when the board of commissioners presented the annual Mayor's Top Apple and School Awards. "They're the baseline, they're everything,” Freaney said. “They're the backbone. When...
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