Long Reads

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Here is what some demonstrators, organizations have to say.

Two bridge inspectors helped retrieve victims after the Sunshine Skyway collapsed. Now they tell their story.

Putting out a paper amid a pandemic may not be stress-free, but then again, that’s the norm for Marin Fehl.

“You’re in the middle of it but you can’t break down. You just tell yourself, I can cry later.”

Others in the line: Drops in consumer spending. Evaporating sales tax revenues. Rising bankruptcies.

Tampa Bay nonprofits brought doctors to Bogotá in December to help. The situation has only worsened since.

A local singer with big dreams keeps getting close to stardom. Then her body and mind start to fail her.

Online, people share their thoughts, their angst and their desire for company.

Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne has downplayed the pandemic and held services at the River at Tampa Bay Church last month, leading to his arrest.

Experts say the huge population of highly social seniors could crush the local health care system, which already has problems.

As health officials warned Floridians were at “grave risk,” the state dismantled the defenses it built against a coronavirus-like crisis.

She thought her family was overreacting. Then she began to feel weak.

She got sick after a trip to Chicago. Now her mother and sister have the virus, too.

From its headquarters in Boca Raton, GardaWorld has put unsafe trucks on the road, and its workers and unsuspecting motorists have suffered the consequences.

Gabriel Cordova Tejada’s family in St. Petersburg waits for answers, closure.

On Valentine’s Day, we present a look at love.

'Red flag’ law aims to keep people with violent instincts, mental disorders from accessing weapons.

Three killings in late 2019, and an array of alarming incidents after, rocked the equestrian community. No culprits have been caught.

A Tampa boy was born with a rare disease. His parents refuse to give up hope.

Johns Hopkins promised to elevate All Children’s Heart Institute. Then patients started to die at an alarming rate.

The lingering case of Tommy Zeigler and other men on Florida’s Death Row.

They took credit for finding jobs for thousands of people who never sought help.

How Pinellas County School District leaders turned five once-average schools into failure factories.

The campaign is over. The candidate might be dead. But the spending never stops.

Florida cut $100 million from its mental hospitals. Chaos quickly followed.

Investigation of squalid conditions that marked housing for Hillsborough County's substantial homeless population, which lead to swift reforms.

At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction.

She was found curled up in a filthy room, unable to speak or make eye contact. They called her a feral child. Could nurturing make up for a lifetime of neglect?