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Judge is running to unseat Democrat Kathy Castor.

A man in a motorized lift was stranded about 150 feet in the air on the side of a water tower in Dunedin, making for a difficult rescue Friday afternoon. Curlew Road was shut down for hours, and multiple agencies responded. 

A Pinellas County-based artist Tom Stovall is currently painting the water tower on Curlew Road more than 100 feet in the air.

Proposed insurance reforms aimed at reducing costs and preventing insurers from leaving Florida advanced in the state Senate on Wednesday. One proposal would eliminate a requirement for companies to offer full replacement coverage, while another would make it harder to stay in state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Eric Lynn first Florida Democrat to jump into race to replace Charlie Crist This will be one of the most competitive congressional races in the country.   Updated 50 minutes ago A day after U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist announced he’s running for governor, there’s already a Democrat vying to replace him in Congress. Eric Lynn, a national security adviser from St. Petersburg, made official on Wednesday his long-rumored plans to run for the District 13 seat. “My view is the people of...

Crist’s gubernatorial run is just the latest development in a long and tumultuous political career. A longtime Republican, Crist won the governor’s mansion in 2006. He mounted a bid for Senate in 2010 instead of seeking a second term as governor, eventually running as an Independent after losing the Republican primary.  He lost that race to Sen. Marco Rubio ADVERTISEMENT Crist finally reentered public office in 2016 when he was elected as a Democrat to represent Florida’s Pinellas County...

Your small business makeover, that is. That’s the offer of five Pinellas County entrepreneurs — the self-named “Fab Five” — who will give a complete business makeover to one Pinellas County area business chosen as the ideal candidate. Fab Five members will provide the chosen small business winner a wide range of entrepreneurial skills to help it relaunch with a fresh and distinctive new image. “We know and understand what it’s like to run a small business duri...