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The two remaining candidates for St. Petersburg mayor will square off tonight for the first of what is likely to be many debates.Current Mayor Bill Foster…

The next White House Conference on Aging - which is aimed at finding new ways to improve the lives of older Americans - will take place July 13 in…

Florida saw more than 1,100 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the Florida Department of Health reported.The 6 p.m. report showed that 17,968 people have…

Coronavirus cases in the state are approaching 20,000, according to the Florida Department of Health.The 6 p.m. Sunday update shows 19,885 people have…

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta reports on some of the African Americans who celebrated Kwanzaa this year. Today marks the end of the seven-day holiday, which is based on African harvest festivals. People of all ages came to Kwanzaa ceremonies in Atlanta this year seeking personal, political and even professional renewal. Started 30 years ago by a black American university professor in California, Kwanzaa has become increasingly popular. Each day of Kwanzaa commemorates one of seven principles. Translating from Swahili, they are: 1) Umojoa, which means unity; 2)Ujima, which means collective work and responsibility; 3) Kujichagulia, or self determination; 4) Ujamaa, cooperative economics; 5) Nia, purpose; 6) Kuumba, Creativity; and 7) Imani, faith. Together, these principles are known as the "Nguzo Saba."

NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner, Teri Fenner from San Diego, Calif.

A St. Petersburg City Council seat is vacant after Lisa Wheeler-Bowman resigned over allegations that she did not live in District 7.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 204,000 of the children's weighted blankets, which were being exclusively sold at Target.

The dispute follows Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The 1.6 billion euro helicopter carriers are sitting in French dockyards.

The program is free to everyone, even non-members, but AAA urges that it's a last resort.

The more than two-decade-old investigation into who killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, in 1981 has come to a close. Police in Florida say Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died in prison in 1996, decapitated Adam Walsh.

Japan's main index fell more than 6 percent. South Korea was down more than 3 percent. Hong Kong's main stock average fell nearly 5 percent, partly on grim economic news out of China. The drop in world markets follows a nearly 8 percent plunge in the Dow, after the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a report declaring that the U.S. officially is in recession.

2023 broke video game industry records, both in the quantity and quality of acclaimed, financially successful games. NPR staff and contributors bring you their favorites.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn in a few hours, but we'll always have the shots it took of icy volcanoes, hexagonal storms, ethane lakes and ripples in Saturn's rings.

A 6-year-old boy's day off from school Friday left him with a vivid story to tell his classmates, after he was seized — and eventually released — by an alligator in South Florida. The attack occurred at a wildlife refuge where the boy's father had taken his son for a canoe ride.

In a dispute involving an ill-fated plan to build nuclear reactors in Levy County, a federal judge last week said Duke Energy is not required to pay…

With three strong hurricanes, wildfires, hail, flooding, tornadoes and drought, the United States tallied a record high bill last year for weather…

A 10-2 start in 2017, his first season as head coach, had University of South Florida football fans thinking that Charlie Strong was the answer. But a 7-6…

January 6 th is the anniversary of same-sex marriage becoming legal in Florida. But 5 years after the historic ruling, Florida statute still says...

Construction of a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee that state lawmakers envision as a way to help a region beset by toxic algae blooms was part of a...

Eleven senators and senators-elect said they'd reject electors "from disputed states" without an investigation into the votes in those states. They did not provide evidence for their concerns.

The St. Petersburg City Council approved a $6.7 million dollar contract to equip hundreds of officers and patrol cars with cameras by the end of 2020.

The Tampa Bay region marked its second highest number of cases in a single week, nearing the peak for weekly cases that came in mid-July.

The state recorded 2,331 new daily positive coronavirus tests, its lowest total in nearly two weeks, but with its highest positivity rate in a similar time span.

Monday was the third straight day that statewide hospitalizations due to the virus increased by at least 100. Last week, daily hospitalization increases were largely in the double digits.