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If the success of the last two winners of the USF Center for Entrepreneurship's Fintech Business Plan Competition is any indication, the future may be…

WUSF Jazz Director Bob Seymour featured an extensive conversation with Chuck Owen in debuting ‘River Runs’ on All Night Jazz, and prepared this piece for…

As victims of the Boston Marathon bombings leave the hospital or prepare to, their stories are beginning to pour out. Celeste Corcoran and her daughter, Sydney, both suffered grievous leg injuries. Their accounts give a fuller toll of the attack and the challenges that lie ahead.

Students at USF's Tampa campus got an unexpected - and likely unwelcome - break from final exams when power went out over much of the university Wednesday…

Democrats are so angry over House Republicans' refusal to accept federal funds to expand health coverage that they deliberately caused action on the floor…

By late Tuesday morning, Florida's AutoReader (nicknamed Mary) bragged in a tweet: ... I have now read 1.2 million words.Shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday,…

Over six thousand students will pick up their diplomas at a series of graduation ceremonies around the USF System over the next week.According to USF…

The city of Cambridge has asked Tamerlan Tsarnaev's family not to request that he be buried in a city-owned graveyard, and four privately owned cemeteries have said they won't take the body.

The small group of parents hovered over a list of words, deciding where to sort “cloud,” “photosynthesis,” and “Google.” They paid particular attention to…

Since 9 a.m. Monday, American artist Scott LoBaido has been painting a 80' by 30'American flag mural on the north wall of the Tampa Firefighters Museum in…

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and a third woman had been missing for years when they were discovered Monday apparently held against their will in a Cleveland area home.

Neighbors heard a woman desperately shouting for help from inside a home. After a man helped her get out, authorities discovered that Amanda Berry and two other young women who had been missing for between 9 and 11 years had been inside the house. Three men have been arrested.

Tons of health issues were brought up by the Florida Legislature this session. We've been paying close attention, and we're still sorting it all…

The next time you browse the web on your phone, be sure to visit the new NPR homepage. Updates from infinite headlines to extended NPR listening opportunities to advanced searching options.

The bay waters that lap on the southern shores of MacDill Air Force Base are typically off limits to civilian fishing boats, but not this Saturday, May…

Humana is adding full time marketing services positions to both its Miramar and Tampa locations. It's looking to hire 170 people in Tampa Bay.Humana's…

For more than two weeks, a funeral director in Worcester, Mass., had been trying to find a grave yard willing to take Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body. Police there now say a place has been found and that the remains are no longer in Worcester. They have not revealed the location.

The three young women who authorities say were held captive inside a home for about a decade have given police similar accounts of what suspect Ariel Castro allegedly did to trick them into coming with him.

USF student Kiersten Downs is counting down the days to June 1st, when she'll hop on her bicycle in San Francisco and start riding. She won't stop until…

Between 6,500 and 7,000 runners and walkers are expected to trek through the USF Tampa campus Saturday morning for the PNC Bank Miles for Moffitt.The…

More than 1,000 people are known to have been killed by the collapse of the building, which housed garment factories. In recent days, searchers had not expected to find any survivors. Instead, they had been focusing on recovering bodies. On Friday, 17 days after the disaster, a woman came out alive.

With its glittering spire now firmly attached, the new World Trade Center became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere Friday morning.

Even though Florida officials tried to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at every turn over the past three years, the state will gain…

Community college students are needlessly assigned to remedial math classes to learn lessons they won’t use during their studies, according to new…

Sunday is Mother’s Day -- normally a time for celebration. But it's sometimes tough to celebrate when mom is home and the kids are serving overseas in the…