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Florida’s oldest independent weekly newspaper could cease to exist before the summer is over. Yesterday, publishers of The Gabber Newspaper told readers that, “If we don’t hit our fundraising goal by July 1, the paper is done.” The publication, founded in 1968 as the “Gulfport Gabber,” has served South Pinellas for nea

St. Petersburg cult favorite Violet Stone is officially crossing the bay. The hit pizzeria and cheesesteak shop is planning a roughly 3,000-square-foot outpost in Tampa, bringing its charred, well-done pies and hefty cheesesteaks to the Kennedy Boulevard corridor later this year. According to the Tampa Bay Business Jou

A Tampa veteran living with a rare muscle disease has had a key benefits denial reversed after local investigative journalists put a spotlight on his case. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the changes yesterday, following 10Tampa Bay’s "Diagnosis Denied" documentary, which highlighted veterans who say the a

Valrico mother Shaniece Willingham, 24, is set to stand before a Hillsborough County judge today for a pretrial hearing in a case that alleges she tried to drown her three young children at a Valrico community pool last September. Prosecutors say family members who saw a social-media livestream rushed to the scene and

The Victorian séance ritual—where participants put their hands on a table and use its movements to interpret communication from the spirit world—led to the creation of the Ouija board. The post Paranormal investigators will teach table tipping in St. Pete this weekend appeared first on Creative Loafing Tampa .

St. Pete’s most gastronomically-pleasing event is taking over the downtown waterfront this weekend. The Tampa Bay Barbecue Festival & Competition is turning Vinoy Park into a full weekend of hog heaven, taking place this Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24. The 9th annual festival is a sprawling celebration of great...

Shipping containers could begin arriving later this year for North Greenwood’s retail and food hall project after Clearwater’s Community Development Board approved the proposed North Greenwood Container Mall on Tuesday. The 0.35-acre development is planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Tangerine Street and woul

Pinellas County officials discussed using water restrictions, utility policies, and tax incentive bans to discourage massive data centers during a May 14 work session. The Board of County Commissioners weighed whether these approaches could stop facilities tied to artificial intelligence and cloud computing from buildi

A man was arrested for a fatal hit-and-run crash in Central Florida. The post Man Arrested for Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash in Central Florida appeared first on West Orlando News .

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The city of St. Petersburg is accepting applications from qualified developers for its Affordable Rental Housing Program under the Sunrise St. Pete initiative. The initiative is funded by Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) dollars allocated to the city by the U.S. Dep