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Updated: 8:11 AM EDT May 20, 2021 TAMPA, Fla. — Drivers who typically take the Gandy Bridge from Pinellas County to Tampa should find another route this morning. Tampa police and fire rescue a crash on the bridge has the eastbound lanes closed. One person was injured and transported to a hospital. Officers said the crash would have the bridge shut down for several hours while they investigate.  The police department said drivers should take another route. 

/ Between late 2019 and early 2020, Tampa Bay saw an estimated decline of 5,411 acres of seagrass, according to the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Scientists say pollution from runoff and wastewater leaks adds nutrients to the bay, fueling algae growth that hurts seagrass beds. Seagrasses provide shelter and food to a diverse community of animals, from small invertebrates to large fish, crabs, turtles, marine mammals and birds. Provisional results released earlier this month by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) show that Tampa Bay now harbors 35,240 acres ...

Tampa City Council gives initial approval for apartments next to chlorine plant The 4-2 vote comes amidst concerns that new residents on Rattlesnake Point will be put at risk.     Aerial view of Rattlesnake Point showing a chlorine plant near residential areas on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 in Tampa. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ] Updated 6 hours ago TAMPA — City Council members considered what one of them called a “tough vote” for nearly two hours Thursday evening before giving the initial nod to a nearly 500-unit apartment complex to be built next to an active chlorine plan...

Rattlesnake Point construction near chemical plant up for discussion at Thursday meeting Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. WFTS and last updated 2021-04-08 07:22:19-04 Public hearings will happen Thursday night in Tampa to discuss the construction of new apartments next to a chemical plant. Rattlesnake Point, south of the Gandy Bridge, is prime Tampa waterfront real estate. It also has a chemical plant that uses chlorine and other dangerous chemicals used in water and wastewater treatment, which ...

Updated Mar. 2 Warning: The descriptions in this story and a photograph of a public lynching are graphic and disturbing. Six years ago, a crew replacing light poles on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street found an engraved metal plate. It was a few feet off the ground, blackened with graffiti and hidden behind a planter bursting with bird of paradise, almost invisible. “At this intersection, Nov. 12, 1914, John Evans a black laborer from Dunnellon was lynched,” it said, “condemned by a secret council of 15 of St. Petersburg’s most influential citizens, he was then turned over...