The Latest Breaking News from Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. — There’s an old joke about a man who asked his brother to housesit his cat while he goes on a family vacation. When the man calls home to check on everything, the brother blurts out that the cat has died.

TAMPA, Fla. — A band of Cuban dissidents protested inside an expensive Tampa restaurant Friday night, disrupting a meeting between Cuban ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera and a group of business officials and local politicians.

TAMPA, Fla. — Less than three years ago, Florida’s higher education leaders went all in to address racial and ethnic inequalities.

TAMPA, Fla. — Acting on a proposal from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers filed legislation Wednesday to allow the death penalty for adults convicted of sexual battery of children younger than 12.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Penguins are coming into Amalie Arena on Thursday night to fight for their playoff lives. With 22 games left in their season, Pittsburgh is clinging to the second wild card in the Eastern Conference, with five teams nipping furiously at their heels to knock them out.

The Florida Panthers’ postseason hopes were teetering, their top two centers were injured and out of the lineup, and the looming specter of the Friday trade deadline left them at a pivotal moment in their season, so, of course, all they did Tuesday was traveling across the state to face…

CLEARWATER, Fla. — When Phillies manager Rob Thomson told Edmundo Sosa he was considering playing him in center field this season, Sosa was in Tampa, Fla., for a weeklong workout with a few players who were represented by his agency, Octagon. His friends, major league outfielders Julio Rodríguez, Adolís Garcia,…

TAMPA, Fla. — It doesn’t take strong teeth for acrobats to hang from a trapeze by their mouths.

TAMPA, Fla. — A Hillsborough County man who was the first person in Florida to face trial on charges of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election was sentenced Monday to two years of probation.