Excessive Rainfall, Flood Risk for Tampa Bay, Southwest Florida
TAMPA BAY, Florida – The National Weather Service (NWS) Tampa Bay has issued a forecast for west Central Florida and Southwest Florida on Sunday, August 31, 2025, forecasting showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 5pm, with highs steady around 84 across the region. Increased moisture will result in higher...
This Unfussy Restaurant In Florida Has Fish And Chips That Are Absolutely To Die...
Sometimes the best seafood comes from places that don’t need fancy tablecloths or waiters in bow ties – just the freshest catch and a kitchen that knows what to do with it. That’s exactly what you’ll find at Fourth Street Shrimp Store in St. Petersburg, Florida, where unpretentious...
Pinellas cracks down on DUIs in tribute to family killed by impaired driver
Multiple Pinellas County law enforcement agencies teamed up for a 10-hour "DUI Wolfpack" operation. The crackdown honors four men killed in a 2010 St. Pete crash caused by a 20-year-old impaired driver. The McConnell family says the pain of losing their loved ones remains fresh, even 15 years later. Pinellas...
LIVE: Track storms moving through Tampa Bay
After a dry start to the holiday weekend, rain chances leap up to a 60% of scattered storms Sunday. As a stalling frontal boundary sinks deeper into the area today, an unsettled weather pattern will support greater rain chances with moisture being funneled in from the Gulf throughout Sunday. Downpours and storms will...
$1.1 billion Powerball jackpot still up for grabs
The next Powerball drawing will be on Labor Day, Sept. 1.
Instagram scavenger hunt leads man to drive 106 mph to car dealership so he...
A Florida man finds himself in legal trouble — all for the pursuit of $60, cops say. The Florida Highway Patrol said in a probable cause arrest affidavit that a trooper was patrolling in the area of State Road 56 near Shops Lane in Wesley Chapel, which is roughly 25 miles northeast of Tampa, when he spotted a...
Hillsborough County Duo Face Federal Charges After Armed Robbery Spree Comes to an End
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, in coordination with federal agencies, has made two arrests in connection with a series of armed robberies that have occurred in the county over the past two months. According to the official statement, Andres Correa Jr., 39, and Cassandra Kerr, 46, are now facing federal...
Students react: USFSP’s “Fluid Structures” among first of St. Pete murals to be removed
“This is senseless destruction of culture out here today,” University of South Florida St. Petersburg graduate psychology student Jackson Nash-Sembler said, as he watched the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) paint over “Fluid Structures,” the campus’ street mural. Nash-Sembler was one of the many students...
Pinellas County Sheriff: 22 DUI Arrests And 339 Citations In ‘Wolf Pack’ Operation
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – An overnight DUI “Wolf Pack” operation, conducted by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and multiple partner agencies, has resulted in dozens of criminal arrests and hundreds of traffic citations. The proactive initiative, which ran from Saturday evening into Sunday morning, targeted...
Hundreds of citations and dozens of charges issued as a result of joint ‘DUI...
A Labor Day weekend DUI enforcement effort in Pinellas County resulted in hundreds of citations and dozens of charges, according to the Sheriff’s Office.