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High-Water Rescues In Pinellas County Amid Hurricane Debby

Pinellas County, Florida, faces high-water rescues and severe weather impacts from Hurricane Debby, urging residents to prioritize safety.

Top News · Aug 5, 2024

Brickbat: Typo Trauma

A typo apparently led Pinellas County, Florida, sheriff's deputies to pull a man and his epileptic teenage daughter from their car at gunpoint. A local TV station reports that a deputy ran the car's tag and it came back stolen. But about 10 minutes after deputies pulled over the driver,…

Reason · May 22, 2024

Florida man accused of chopping head off dog he adopted one day earlier and dumping body in park

Graphic details: Domingo Rodriguez was arrested after being identified as the adopter of four-year-old Dexter by microchip in bulldog mix

The Independent UK · May 21, 2024

Fla. county courts new ally in beach erosion battle: The White House

TAMPA, Fla. — Cookie Kennedy was out for a walk with a friend one day this winter when she felt a familiar dread creep up on her. As the pair strolled the north shore of Indian Rocks Beach, the small Pinellas County city where Kennedy is mayor, they were forced…

Tribune News Service · Mar 18, 2023

Man pronounced dead by paramedics after cardiac arrest - but he was still BREATHING

Thomas Maxwell, 65 was found unresponsive on the floor of his him in Pinellas County, Florida, US, but his daughter, Phebe Maxwell, insisted he was still alive

Daily Mirror · Feb 22, 2023

Tampa Bay woman found the boat that saved her father from Nazis, now it’s in Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Florida Holocaust Museum is a place that largely reminds visitors of the inhumanity of which mankind is capable. Two Pinellas County women who lost grandparents to the Holocaust are helping to bring a message of humanity to the museum.

Tribune News Service · Feb 21, 2023

Woman found boat she believes saved her father from Nazis; now it’s in US and headed for the Florida Holocaust Museum

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Florida Holocaust Museum is a place that largely reminds visitors of the inhumanity of which mankind is capable. Two Pinellas County women who lost grandparents to the Holocaust are helping to bring a message of humanity to the museum.

Tribune News Service · Feb 19, 2023

They sold the land under their Pinellas County mobile homes. Now they regret it

Nancy DeCamp can no longer bear to enter the home on lot 257.

Tribune News Service · Feb 10, 2023

Schools in Florida's Pinellas County remove book by prize-winning author Toni Morrison

Pinellas County high school students no longer will have access to Toni Morrison’s first book, “The Bluest Eye,” in their classrooms or libraries.

Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2023

1,500 pounds of dead fish cleared from St. Pete Beach over weekend as Red Tide looms

Dead baitfish dotted the shoreline like seashells and the air reeked of rot Saturday morning on Pass-a-Grille Beach.

Tribune News Service · Dec 14, 2022