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Associated PressDecember 26, 2016

Tampa Bay home sales showed huge year over year gains in November while prices in Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties also jumped dramatically. The November figures are a sign that Tampa Bay’s housing market remains strong even as rising interest rates threaten to put a chill on sales nationwide. “This has been so busy, this […]

Associated PressDecember 24, 2016

A widely shared story claiming President Barack Obama ordered a ban on Christmas cards sent to the military is not true. The story appeared Dec. 12 on the website tdtalliance using banners and logos from Fox News . The network never aired such a story. Obama never issued such an order, White House spokesman Carl […]

Associated PressDecember 24, 2016

A Florida man is in jail on charges that he threatened President-elect Donald Trump on Facebook. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that a federal judge on Friday ordered Kevin Krohn held without bond until another hearing next week. The Secret Service arrested the 59-year-old Krohn on Thursday at his suburban Fort Lauderdale home after […]

Associated PressDecember 23, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott has assigned a complaint filed against Attorney General Pam Bondi to a prosecutor in southwest Florida. The complaint stems from scrutiny this year over a $25,000 campaign contribution Bondi received from President-elect Donald Trump in 2013. Bondi asked for the donation around the same time her office was being asked about a […]

Associated PressDecember 23, 2016

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been given the green light to move forward with a plan to deepen and widen Port Everglades. Port officials said Thursday that the corps can move ahead with the project now that President Obama signed into the law last week the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act. […]

Associated PressDecember 22, 2016

Federal civil rights attorneys have sued the city of Jacksonville for refusing to allow a nonprofit organization to convert an old apartment building into housing for the homeless. The Florida Times-Union reports that lawyers with the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division on Tuesday asked a federal judge for an injunction blocking the city’s […]

Associated PressDecember 21, 2016

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The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump‘s unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The No. 2 story also was a dramatic upset — Britons’ vote to leave the […]

Associated PressDecember 20, 2016

Families of three patrons killed in the Orlando nightclub massacre sued Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming the gunman who killed their loved ones was radicalized through propaganda found through social media. The families of Tevin Crosby, Juan Ramon Guerrero Jr. and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Michigan. They are seeking […]

Associated PressDecember 20, 2016

A story claiming Florida is set to recount votes in the presidential election because of fraud is untrue. The story posted on bipartisanreport.com on Dec. 6 was headlined: “Florida Moves For FULL RECOUNT Of State Over Massive Voter Fraud.” It received more than 73,000 likes, comments or shares on Facebook before it was removed from […]

Associated PressDecember 19, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Vincent Viola as secretary of the Army. Viola is the founder of several businesses, including Virtu Financial, an electronic trading firm. He also owns the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers and is a past chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange. In a statement Monday, Trump said Viola is “living […]

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Home sales surge again in Tampa Bay as prices still climb

Fact check: Obama didn’t ban Christmas cards to military

Florida man charged with threatening Donald Trump on Facebook

Rick Scott hands Pam Bondi complaint to new prosecutor

Go-ahead given for deepening Port Everglades

Feds sue Jacksonville over city refusal of homeless housing

U.S. election voted top news story of 2016

3 Pulse families sue social media, alleging aid for IS

Fact check: Florida not recounting election votes

Donald Trump picks Vincent Viola for Army secretary