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With the Hillsborough River at his back, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said the “State of the City” is “good” but its future is even “brighter.” The first-term…

Baseball history was made in Tampa on April 4, 1919, when Babe Ruth hit what many consider to be his longest home run ever.Ruth was still with the Boston…

Major League Baseball opens Wednesday night at Miami’s brand new, retractable roof ballpark as the Miami Marlins host the St. Louis Cardinals. Along with…

I know Honda owners who brag about getting more than 200,000 miles out of their cars. That is, if they change the all-important timing belt. But one…

There's a story in the Tampa Bay Times about a pretty nasty chemical that's been found at a Tampa facility that makes synthetic marijuana.The Tampa Bay…

You know Democrats and their allies plan to use cuts to Medicare included in the U.S. House budget against presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt…

The Port of Tampa is key to increasing exports of U.S. goods – that’s the message that President Barack Obama delivered during a brief visit Friday on his…

President Obama stopped at the Port of Tampa to talk up his goal of doubling U.S. exports. He said the country's 46 percent increase in exports to Latin…

Tonight, the Florida Highway Patrol announced that 24-year-old Michael Graziano died early this afternoon from injuries in an April 3rd wreck. The…

Routine patrol early Sunday morning turned out to be anything but for Hillsborough Deputy Juan Lazu.Around 1:00 a.m. he was hit nearly head-on by a driver…

That stinging feeling that sometimes accompanies trips to the beach during outbreaks of red tide can be especially harmful to people with asthma. Now,…

O.K., anyone who knows anything about the Cuban Sandwich knows it started in Tampa's Ybor City a century ago.Cuban immigrants mixed with Italians, Germans…

NASA's oldest space shuttle, Discovery, made its final flight today aboard a modified 747 jumbo jet. It left Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral just…

There may be nothing new under the sun, but in the Sunshine State, the Feds say identity-theft tax fraud is an epidemic that's spreading to other states.…

Art Nadel a man notorious in Sarasota for his crimes, has died in a North Carolina prison. He was the main man in the largest investment swindle the…

St. Petersburg Police have arrested Matthew Cook of St. Petersburg, the man suspected of killing a cyclist last week.He's facing several criminal charges,…

Tucked away on the edge of Tampa's USF campus is a little-known oasis: the USF Botanical Gardens. The gardens, founded in 1969, provide students and…

The judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case has removed herself from the case. She first raised the issye, and later George Zimmerman's…

Imagine School at North Port wants to drug test students 6th grade and above starting the next school year, according to the Herald-Tribune.The students…

On some Florida Panhandle beaches, swimmers can come off the beach with oil from the BP oil spill still on their skin -- two years after that…

We've seen the possible health hazards from the dispersant used to keep oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon well from fouling Gulf beaches.Now, a…

James Sibert, one of the two FBI agents present at the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy, has died.The Fort Myers resident was 93. Sibert spent the…

More than two dozen cases of whooping cough have cropped up in Hillsborough County.Hillsborough County Health officials say an entire family came down…

Two cities -- Tampa and Miami -- are locked in a battle to claim the Cuban sandwich as its own. Last Thursday, the opening salvo was fired by Tampa City…

Two cities -- Tampa and Miami -- are locked in a battle to claim the Cuban sandwich as its own.WUSF's Bobbie O'Brien makes the case for Tampa on based on…