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Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press) PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A massive law enforcement “Wolf...

The Florida Highway Patrol says eight people were seriously injured and ejected after a golf cart overturned during a crash with a car in Wesley Chapel. Troopers say the golf cart driver tried to make a U-turn on Elam Road and was hit by a Honda sedan driven by a 17-year-old girl.

After roughly 15 years at the helm of the Duke Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg, private operator Bill Edwards is stepping down in May, and the venue’s future leadership is suddenly looking wobbly. City officials put the theater’s management out for competitive bids, but only...

Nearly 40 years after the killing of a former Playboy Club star stunned a Florida community, investigators say new DNA technology could finally bring long-awaited answers. Detectives in St. Petersburg are reopening the 1984 murder of Carolyn Merricks, a former Suncoast Playboy Bunny of the Year whose stabbing death...

ST. PETERSBURG — About 150 people were waiting when the doors opened at 7 a.m. March 12 at the new Publix on 38th Avenue North. Some had been there since before dawn. Art Brown, 73, arrived around 5 a.m. David Lessard, 61, got in line about 6:15. Both were...

A realtor in The Villages has been banned from a local Walmart after skip scanning merchandise. MaryKay Childress, 62, of the Village of Largo, is poised to escape prosecution after two instances of theft at the Neighborhood Walmart at Sarasota Plaza. The Wisconsin native has been allowed to enter into a pre-trial...

Pinellas County is about to lose one of its cornerstone record stores. Sound Exchange, which has had a location in Pinellas Park since 2001, will close at the end of April. The independent retail outlet at 8625 66th Street N., Pinellas Park opened in 2017, replacing an earlier incarnation on Park Boulevard. The...

Some places don’t need fancy marketing or Instagram filters to prove they’re worth your time. Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish in St. Petersburg has been doing one thing exceptionally well for over seven decades, and the smoke billowing from their outdoor pits tells you everything you need to know before you even park...

There is a place at the mouth of Tampa Bay where history stands in the sand and the water stays impossibly clear. Egmont Key is quiet, car free, and only reachable by boat, which makes every decision you take there feel intentional. You get a working lighthouse, a ghost town’s...

A Pasco County sheriff’s deputy was shot March 9 after a man suspected of shooting two people — one fatally — pointed a gun at him, Sheriff Chris Nocco said. The suspect was shot by other deputies. Both the deputy, who is expected to be OK, and the suspect were taken to the hospital.