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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The hard throwers occasionally get away with mistakes. Miss your spot at 97 mph, and it’s a little different than, say, 87 mph.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — It was a busy 48 hours for Kyle Schwarber. The free-agent outfielder reached a four-year, $79 million deal with the Phillies last Tuesday at around 10:30 p.m., and nearly an hour later, his wife, Paige, went into labor and had to be rushed to the hospital. He…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It was just after 8 p.m. Friday. Muffled bass music thumped out of clubs, workers swept sidewalks, and bouncers took up positions at front doors as they prepared for the weekend Spring Break crowd.

TAMPA, Fla. -- When sophomore Ethan Brooks first signed up for a new mentorship program for male University of South Florida students, he thought it might help him figure out how to navigate courses and get research opportunities.

TAMPA, Fla. — Twenty minutes before Tom Brady made the announcement that he was ending his retirement, Chris Godwin said he and fellow Bucs wideout Mike Evans received a group text message from the quarterback with the good news.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has sold himself as a warrior against “COVID theater,” championed and got the Legislature to pass his “Stop WOKE Act,” and pushed the narrative that his leadership has produced the “free state of Florida.”

TAMPA, Fla. — DJ LeMahieu watched Trevor Story’s free agency closely. The two were teammates in Colorado, of course he had some interest where the shortstop would end up.

TAMPA, Fla. — It took Nestor Cortes a while to figure it out. The Cuban native, who grew up outside of Miami and was picked by the Yankees in the 36th round of the 2013 draft, spent the first five years of his professional pitching career just trying not to…

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Alex Anthopoulos said he was too busy Friday to tune in to Freddie Freeman's introductory news conference as a Dodger. By the end of the day, the Atlanta Braves' president of baseball operations had struck a deal with former Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen to complete an…

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With overdoses and deaths caused by fentanyl surging several of South Florida’s most prominent elected officials sought a change in state law to legalize inexpensive test strips that can detect its presence, a step they said could save thousands of lives.