With citrus greening and real estate development, some Tampa Bay area residents said it's hard to find fresh squeezed orange juice at restaurants and stores like they used to.
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The issue of a new ballpark for the Tampa Bay Rays been debated for decades. And in the next few months, make-or-break decisions will be made on the redevelopment plans.
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On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Maxwell Frost held a roundtable for Central Florida's Haitian community to brainstorm ideas for those seeking refuge from the ensuing violence and chaos in Haiti.
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Over 100 people gathered at the University of Florida campus on Tuesday to protest Florida SB 846, a recently adopted law that restricts the state's 12 public universities from receiving gifts and entering into international cultural agreements with certain foreign countries.
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The Riverview resident shares family-friendly recipes on her website, CookPraySlay, and she hosts the podcast Cook the Garden. She discusses creative uses for food scraps and why she views gardening as a spiritual experience.
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A Hillsborough County teacher is among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which contends the restrictions violate a federal civil-rights law and the First Amendment.
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New College of Florida is in line to receive $1.1 million in what is known as performance-based funding after state university system officials on Wednesday signed off on a "student success plan monitoring report" presented by the school's president, Richard Corcoran.
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The bill would allow chaplains to act as school counselors in K-12 schools.
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Allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney reached a settlement agreement Wednesday in a lawsuit over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district.
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Ginain Graves hosts the Cool the Garden podcast. We tour her garden and hear her creative uses for food scraps, and how her native Suriname influences her cooking.
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The law goes into effect July 1. Bill sponsor Sen. Jay Collins says it will help ensure children's safety.
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It's been nearly a year since Florida began reviewing Medicaid eligibility, and since then nearly half-a-million children have lost insurance. Many of them have fallen into a gap without coverage, including some with cancer.
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The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway disaster. Over 40 years later, search and rescue officials say the two incidents are "eerily similar."
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NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA, a Latino and immigrant organization, about the construction workers who were on the bridge when it collapsed Tuesday.
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Two bodies were recovered from the Baltimore bridge collapse and investigators released a timeline of events. The Walt Disney Company and Gov. Ron DeSantis have settled their lawsuits.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut about the legacy of Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator and onetime Democratic VP nominee, who died at age 82.
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