Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
The National Hurricane Center raised the Gulf disturbance's formation probability to near 100% on Tuesday, Oct. 6, a sharp escalation from Monday's 60% two-day odds, with heavy rain and flooding possible for the Tampa Bay area later this week.
Public Safety
The National Hurricane Center raised the Gulf disturbance's formation probability to near 100% on Tuesday, Oct. 6, a sharp escalation from Monday's 60% two-day odds, with heavy rain and flooding possible for the Tampa Bay area later this week.
The National Hurricane Center raised the Gulf disturbance's formation probability to near 100% on Tuesday, Oct. 6, a sharp escalation from Monday's 60% two-day odds, with heavy rain and flooding possible for the Tampa Bay area later this week.
Public Safety
Pinellas Superintendent Kevin Hendrick reversed his Tarpon Springs school closure plan, proposing two K-8 schools instead of shutting campuses, after coordinated parent pushback; the school board votes Oct. 13.
Public Safety
The National Hurricane Center on Monday, Oct. 5, reported a 70% seven-day chance that a low-pressure system in the southwestern Gulf could become a tropical depression, prompting Pinellas County residents to review hurricane plans as the system's projected track turns northward toward Florida.
Public Safety
Amari Santana, the 17-year-old Palm Harbor teen with autism who went missing from Dunedin's Edgewater Park on Sept. 27, was found dehydrated but safe at Peter O. Knight Airport in Tampa on Sept. 30 after a three-day search involving the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and more than 100 volunteers.
Public Safety
FDOT is closing the southbound I-275 Exit 25 ramp to 38th Avenue North starting Monday, Oct. 5, for about two months as part of a $340 million interstate widening project, with a detour routing drivers to Exit 24 and north on US 19.
Public Safety
The FACESNXT facial recognition database operated by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office was used in the wrongful arrest of a Jacksonville father on child sex crime charges, costing his family $45,000 and months of separation from his children, according to an investigation by The Florida Trib.
Public Safety
David Christopher Wilson Jr., 22, of Zephyrhills was recovered from Lake Tarpon on Sunday morning after going missing during a boat test drive Friday from a U.S. 19 repair shop in Palm Harbor; the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says the death appears accidental.
Public Safety
A Pinellas County judge found former Dunedin-area plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2023 death of Largo attorney Steven Cozzi, whose body was never found.
Public Safety
The Southwest Florida Water Management District voted Sept. 22 to extend its Phase III "extreme" water shortage order through March 31, 2027, keeping Palm Harbor and Dunedin under one-day-per-week watering restrictions with $193 fines as the regional rainfall deficit reaches 15.4 inches.
Public Safety
A Weather Impact Alert warns Palm Harbor and Dunedin residents of slow-moving thunderstorms capable of dropping 2 or more inches of rain between 4 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, with localized flooding expected in low-lying areas and a wet pattern forecast to persist into next week.
Public Safety
Pinellas County commissioners are preparing to draft e-bike regulations for the Pinellas Trail and shared paths after Gov. DeSantis vetoed a statewide bill and cities including St. Petersburg and Tarpon Springs began writing their own rules.
Public Safety
Pinellas County deputies arrested 50-year-old Rhett Andrae Drummond of Tampa on a child abuse charge after he allegedly rammed his golf cart into a 15-year-old's cart and struck the boy repeatedly during a slow-play dispute at Lansbrook Golf Club in Palm Harbor on Sunday, Aug. 23.
Public Safety
NOAA's Aug. 6 updated forecast cuts the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season outlook to 7–13 named storms and 0–2 major hurricanes as a potentially record-breaking El Niño suppresses storm development, though Gulf "homegrown" systems still threaten Pinellas County as peak season begins.
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