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Roberta Bonoff, new owner of Creative Kidstuff, a toy store chain based in Minneapolis.

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday will veto a 3 percent increase in Florida college tuition and approve $65 million in extra Medicaid funding to hospitals that provide much of the care to the poor, including Jackson Memorial in Miami and Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale.

Kids are invited to learn about Florida's past through archaeology and the clues left behind by ancient societies Monday, May 20 at 6 p.m. at the North Tampa Branch Library, 8916 N. Boulevard, Tampa.

Republicans on the Hillsborough County Commission have twice refused in the past two years to even discuss changing their district boundaries to make it easier for a Hispanic to win a seat.

It's been just more than a year since his bank, JPMorgan Chase, revealed a surprise trading loss that tarnished its usually stellar reputation in Washington and on Wall Street, and what a difference it has made.

Some time in the weekend's wee hours, as Saturday segued into Sunday, the pecuniary bombshell shaped like a Powerball landed about 300 yards from their adjacent porches.

UPDATE: The single winning ticket in Saturday night's Powerball drawing worth an estimated $590 million was sold at a Zephyrhills Publix.

Seminole Heights residents met with City of Tampa officials earlier this week t o talk plans for a neighborhood amenity they say is missing from the landscape: a dog park.

Hillsborough County deputies have arrested the parents of a 23-month-old boy left in an SUV for eight hours.

Gov. Rick "Let's get to work," "It's working," "Jobs, jobs, jobs" Scott has put the kibosh on a deal with Amazon that would have brought 2,500 jobs to the state.

St Pete City Council decided to fund only half of the $1.5 million requested for the next phase of the Lens Project.

Eloy Perez first spotted the bear in the backyard home at 2817 Broad Street W. after letting his dog outside.

A high profile DUI arrest involving a Tampa Police officer, who is already in the middle of another huge DUI controversy after he arrested radio personality M-J's attorney, is bringing charges of overzealous officers.

Tampa Bay residents who keep up with the headlines coming out of Washington, D.C., have likely found themselves scratching their heads more than a few times this past week.

Boy Scout delegates will decide next week if the ban on gay Scouts remains or not.

The Buccaneers will use the first of their 10 allotted OTA days next Monday, kicking off the third and final phase of the nine-week offseason workout as prescribed by the NFL The opening of free agency in early March marks the beginning of a new league year, and the annual draft in late April seems to bisect the NFL's long offseason.

The unemployment rate for Pinellas County dropped to 6.5 percent in April, according to the May 17 report from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

Busch Gardens is celebrating the opening of its stage show " Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation" with special events at the Tampa theme park Saturday and Sunday.

On May 15, 2013, the reported indictment of John Andrew Welden, 28, a pre-med student at the University of South Florida , Tampa, Fla ., sent shockwaves not only locally but nationwide.

JPMorgan Chase chief, Jamie Dimon, faces a major challenge to his leadership next week in the wake of the "London Whale" debacle.