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VIDEO: Hillsborough County Sheriff Warns About Fake Law Enforcement Scammers
Sheriff Chad Chroinister
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - Sheriff Chad Chroinister is warning the community to watch out for scammers pretending to be [...]
70-Year-Old Holiday Woman Dies After Being Struck By A Pickup Truck In Entrance To CVS
Source: CVS
PASCO COUNTY, Fla - A 70-year-old Holiday woman has died after being hit by a pickup truck in the parking lot of a CVS Pharmacy.
Ac [...]
Miami And Tampa Top Home Price Increases
TFP File Photo
While the housing market has cooled, Miami and Tampa continued to top other metro areas across the country in home-price increases [...]
Citizens Property Insurance Nears 1.2M Policies In Florida
Hurricane Ian Flooding 2022 (File Photo)
The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. added more than 6,000 customers last week, as it appro [...]
St. Petersburg 8th-Grader Arrested Making Threats On Social Media To Shoot Up School
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A 15-year-old boy in the eighth grade at John Hopkins Middle School threatened a shooting [...]
Florida Lottery Scratch-Off Players Now Have A Chance To Win $1 Million A Year For Life
Source: Florida Lottery
Florida Lottery scratch-off players now have a chance to win $1,000,000 a year for life on a new game announced on Monday. [...]
Illegal Immigrant, Wanted In 2007 Florida Homicide, Arrested After Passing Vehicle On Double Line
Jose Wilson Padilla-Padilla, 41 (WCSO)
A traffic stop for passing on double yellow lines leads to the arrest of a wanted suspect from a 2007 homic [...]
City Of Tampa Launching New eBike Voucher Program
Kevin Craft, owner of City Bike Tampa, helped design the City of Tampa's new eBike Voucher Program. He was one of the first bike shops to apply to pa [...]
Fight The Blight Cleanup Set For March 3-10 In Gibsonton
Gibsonton Fight The Blight
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - How a community looks can impact how residents feel. Illegal dump sites and code violations [...]
Duke Energy Florida Trims Proposed Bill Increases
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With projected prices of natural gas dropping, Duke Energy Florida on Monday trimmed proposed bill increases that likely will hit [...]