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Photos: Tampa pro-Palestinian activists arrested at the University of South Florida

While campus police made Florida State University students take down tents last week, it would appear Florida’s first police arrests related to…

By Ray Roa

Police arresting people at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida on April 29, 2024.
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A midcentury modern gem designed by renown architect Ralph Twitchell is now for sale on Siesta Key

A midcentury gem designed by a founding member of the of the Sarasota School of Architecture movement is now on the market in Siesta…

By Colin Wolf

Midcentury home designed by renown architect Ralph Twitchell is now for sale on Siesta Key
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Phillies legend Mike Schmidt's former Tampa Bay condo is now for sale

A condo that once served as home base for Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt, one of Major League Baseball's greatest hitters (and…

By Colin Wolf

Phillies legend Mike Schmidt's former Tampa Bay condo is now for sale
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Photos: All the beautiful plant people we saw at St. Pete’s Green Thumb Festival 2024

The weather’s been remarkably perfect lately, and last weekend in St. Petersburg people (and their pooches) got out of their gardens and…

By Ray Roa

Vendors at the Green Thumb Festival at Walter Fuller Park in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 28, 2024.
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