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Katie Crutchfield came riding into St. Petersburg on a high yesterday. Two nights beforehand, her band Waxahatchee played Nashville’s Ryman Theater where Lucinda Williams joined in onstage. Waxahatchee’s last two albums have a musical address on the same gravel roads as work by the Americana legend, and Crutchfield was still glowing from the experience as she walked down the spiral stairs at Jannus Live.

While campus police made Florida State University students take down tents last week, it would appear Florida’s first police arrests related to the pro-Palestine solidarity protests happened in Tampa this afternoon.

Last Thursday, about a dozen students at Tampa’s University of South Florida continued to voice support for a movement that, in part, asks the school to divest from all companies and defense contractors, which activists say support the Israeli government's indiscriminate bombardments.

As he began a hunger strike last week, University of South Florida student Will Mleczko told fellow activists that he would continue the action until the school divests from all companies and defense contractors, which Mleczko’s fellow strikers say support the Israeli government's indiscriminate bombardments.

You only get one first time to do anything. Whataboutmomma and Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF) are about to experience that together in a big way.

A bill to dismantle police citizen review boards moved forward in the state senate on Wednesday. WMNF's Chris Young reports

A policy change at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles takes away a transgender person’s ability to obtain a driver's license corresponding with their gender identity.

Family arguments are as much of a Thanksgiving tradition as the food itself, and there’s a good chance that canned cranberry sauce won’t be the most polarizing topic this year. Inevitably, anyone gathering with friends and family this week has a good chance of finding themselves in a conversation about Israel, Hamas, and the approximately 10,000 people who’ve died over the last 46 days.

‘The company gave us two choices: consolidate facilities and gain jobs, or close facilities and lose jobs.’

The new agreement suspends a six-week strike, as workers will vote on whether to accept the new contract.