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Residents of North Carolina's "Stroke Belt" headed out with cameras to document why the area is notorious for high rates of heart disease and stroke. They aim to come up with community solutions.

Frank Ocean closed the opening weekend of the music festival Coachella. He was originally slated to headline in 2020, but the show was postponed due to COVID.

They include treatments treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers, and preventing children from seeing drag shows.

Third-generation owner Roland Yee explains how his grandparents started the farm as a way to supply bok choy, napa cabbage and other vegetables to restaurants in New York City's Chinatown.

An apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Uman was hit after a series of early morning airstrikes across the country Friday.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96.

The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years.

The House Judiciary Committee approved a contempt citation against White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolton, who have refused to comply with committee subpoenas regarding last year's firing of U.S. attorneys.

The U.S. labor market is in its longest losing streak in six years. The Labor Department announced Thursday that the economy lost 62,000 jobs in June. It's the sixth straight monthly decline. But the overall unemployment rate held steady, at about 5.5 percent.

Can you go a day at the office without e-mail? Employees at U.S. Cellular try to do that every Friday. A policy implemented a few years ago gives workers a respite from the e-mail avalanche.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urges his GOP counterparts to "rein in" ICE and discusses his 10-point list of demands to do so.

The Largo restaurant is the first of eight planned locations across the Tampa Bay region by the end of 2027, according to a release.

The Largo Police Department is rolling out new technology that will make it easier to search for Alzheimer's sufferers who are prone to wandering.Using…

Threats of violence against schools have been reported all across Florida since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, on Feb....

Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a pair of veterans-focused bills. He held the signing ceremony Tuesday at Jacksonville’s National Guard armory....

The city of Sarasota is planning to file a lawsuit against a number of major pharmaceutical companies to recover damages from the opioid crisis. City…

The race for Florida governor is heating up. Gov. Rick Scott's likely Democratic challenger Charlie Crist released his first TV ad this week. It's...

With Gov. Rick Scott describing him as “passionate about the environment,” Noah Valenstein was named Tuesday as Florida's next environmental secretary…

This week, hundreds of law enforcement flocked to the Florida Panhandle for the sixth annual Rural County summit. This year’s three-day event focused on...

A 27-year-old man broadcast live on Facebook as he sped down a Pinellas County beach, running over beach chairs and umbrellas while drinking from a bottle…

The day before Tampa Bay-area Congressman C.W. Bill Young died, he was inaccurately reported dead in the news media.Several news organizations prematurely…

Richie Incognito was suspended by the Miami Dolphins for allegedly sending threatening messages to a younger teammate. The story surfaced a conversation about bullying, race and the culture inside the NFL.

Pinellas County has its first reported case of Zika virus, the Florida Department of Health said on Monday.

A House committee passed a bill Monday that would ban nearly all abortions in Florida, but even backers of the bill say its chances of passage, or of…

The St. Pete Pride Parade is one of the largest LGBT events in Florida, with crowds expected to be over 100,000.But after the shooting at a gay club in…