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Hillsborough County – A 54-year-old Apopka man died following a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning on Interstate 4. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at approximately 10:15 a.m. on October 11, 2025. The man was driving a Kia SUV westbound on I-4, just west of Branch Forbes Road, when he...

Florida Southern College alumna Emily Kujan has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and will spend the upcoming academic year teaching in the Slovak Republic. Kujan, a graduate of Florida Southern’s School of Education, is among recent grantees of the U.S. government’s flagship...

Pilots with red, white, and blue paint schemes are being offered complimentary admission to 2026 aerospace expo.

PLANT CITY, Fla. — Plant City leaders are working to enhance its downtown area. City leaders say that’s meant ensuring businesses are compliant with downtown codes. The city’s code enforcement has started providing businesses with a proactive courtesy letter that provides examples of code issues. Inside Sandi...

One year after Hurricane Milton, which caused homes to be flooded for weeks, residents along Lake Bonny are back home but still concerned about the threat of another disaster.

A teenage car thief was identified from fingerprints and arrested in Central Florida. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, fingerprints collected from two stolen vehicles and the subsequent analysis by a latent print examiner resulted in the positive identification and arrest of a 14-year-old suspect who is...

RIVERVIEW, Fla. (CBS12) — Deputies arrested a 16-year-old at Riverview High School Friday after a campus fight led to the discovery of a kitchen knife in his backpack. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), during school hours, administrators at Riverview High School were made aware of a fight...

Thursday, October 9, marks one year since Hurricane Milton devastated the Tampa Bay area, on the heels of Hurricane Helene.

All five defendants were found guilty in the murder of Central Florida 4-year-old Suni Bell. A Hillsborough County jury recently found all five defendants guilty in the tragic shooting death of 4-year-old Suni Bell. Quandarious Hammond, Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, Andrew Thompson, and James Denson were each...

TAMPA BAY, Florida – The National Weather Service (NWS) Tampa Bay has issued a forecast for west Central Florida and Southwest Florida on Saturday, October 11, 2025, forecasting isolated showers with highs in the lower to mid 80s across the region. Winds will be light today. Rain chances vary...