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A weather system moving across Florida is expected to lead to rounds of rain this week in the Tampa Bay area. An area of low pressure was positioned off Florida’s east coast Monday and was churning out showers and thunderstorms.
An Oakmont man was arrested and charged with cyber harassment of a Florida hospital CEO, including threats to use a guillotine. Lawrence Brunn, 63, faces up to five years in federal prison if he is found guilty of harassing the CEO of Tampa General Hospital,
TRACKING THE TROPICS Regardless of whether the system develops, the Tampa Bay area should expect another round of intense storms. See the latest track ⬇️
Flash flood risk for Florida as Invest 93L crosses the state. Some isolated areas could experience over 5 inches of rain on Tuesday.
Pete Alonso knows a lot about his hometown of Tampa and a lot about playing major-league baseball. And the Mets’ All-Star first baseman has a couple ideas on where the Rays should build a new stadium in his hometown.
A newly obtained list of more than 700 detainees sheds light on who is being held at Florida’s controversial new immigration detention facility in the Everglades. The Miami Herald reports that many have no criminal records,
Interestingly, Florida isn’t alone in this campaign. Other southern states, including South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, are in on it too. Essentially, the south is a no-speeding zone for now. Florida is especially noteworthy, though, because it now has a super speeder law on the books.
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.
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