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The need to be in constant communication can have tragic consequences if you're driving. An epidemic of crashes caused by distracted drivers is behind a…

Five years ago, her mother was killed in a car crash caused by a driver who was distracted by a cell phone.After Jennifer Smith laid her mother to rest,…

Esther Scott, the mother of Florida Gov. Rick Scott, died Tuesday in her hometown of Kansas City, Mo. She was 84. In 2010, Esther Scott became a household…

After Florida took four days to count all of its election ballots, officials are scrambling to change voting procedures.State Representative Darryl Rouson…

Ask Dennis Lehane about storytelling and he will tell you that he grew up in Boston surrounded by Irish aunts and uncles who constantly revised their…

Florida could gain a badly-needed economic boost and thousands of new jobs each year if state officials accept federal funds to expand Medicaid, three new…

Eleven people were killed and one of the largest environmental disasters in history happened after an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in 2010.

A University of South Florida professor is one of just four recipients of what's considered one of the nation's highest honors for undergraduate…

Volunteers led by the non-profit environmental group Tampa Bay Watch shoveled, bagged, and moved fourteen tons of fossilized shells to Schultz Nature…

Charlie Crist can describe Barack Obama in four words: "He's the real deal."Crist made the remark Thursday in Oldsmar during an awards banquet for the…

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says 13-year old Andrea Bower was running late this morning to catch the bus to take her to Giunta Middle School…

The high-profile scandals involving Generals David Petraeus and John Allen revolve around questions of infidelity. If either is proven to be an adulterer…

Gov. Rick Scott has requested a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss creating a health-insurance exchange that…

Don Gaetz, who will be installed as president of the Florida Senate on Tuesday, said he will appoint a "select committee" to study how to implement the…

What did former CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen have to do with Tampa Socialite Jill Kelley's twin sister Natalie Khawam?Well, they both…

Ok, so we may be the butt of jokes nationwide, what with the five days it took to count all the votes down to the Jill Kelley-General Petraeus sitcom. But…

Two weeks after Election Day, it appears the partisan makeup of the new House of Representatives will be 234 Republicans and 201 Democrats, although the outcome is not yet official in two states. That would be a gain of eight seats for the minority Democrats.

Howard Miller spent his childhood at his grandparents' hotel in St. Petersburg, rowing out to the small mangrove island just offshore to see the local…

USF may soon be on the hunt for a new athletic conference to play in if just one more team defects from the Big East, according to the Providence…

Each year, Lego turns out 19 billion plastic bricks, figures and gears for building things. But sometimes it seems even 19 billion isn't enough. Seattle-area resident Will Chapman wanted more, so he started making Lego-compatible parts — including World War II weapons.

One of the nation's largest health insurers has been shown the door by BayCare Health System, Tampa Bay's dominant non-profit hospital chain.The dispute…

Key Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner, say it's time to find common ground in revising the nation's immigration laws, but conservatives in the House could be a firewall against a bipartisan deal.

For the first time since the Great Recession, incomes are up in every major U.S. metropolitan area – including Tampa Bay.That’s according to figures…

Thousands of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage members spent Monday looking for new coverage in order to keep their doctors after BayCare Health…

Sarasota police were accused today of going on "bum hunts" against the city's surging homeless population. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the…