Year: 2015

BY ZACHARY GIPSON-KENDRICKNNB Student Journalist February in Plant City typically marks the start of 11 days filled with festivities, music and the crowning of a

BY DUNCAN RODMANNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – The news media shines when it comes to exposing the negative. That’s good news for crime and

BY ALYSSA MILESNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG— After he graduated from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs in 1999, Markus Hughes made two life-altering

BY SARAH NORCININNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When LaDai Haywood was a fifth grader, she appeared in a promotional video for her new school,

Photos and story BY CANDICE RESHEFNNB Student Reporter In many black churches, faith meets fashion atop the heads of female worshippers. Fancy, colorful hats are

Photos and story BY TONI DEFORESTNNB Student Reporter In 18 years at the Tampa Bay Times, John Pendygraft and his cameras have covered some of

Photos and story BY SEAN LEROUXNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG — It all started with beer-battered fish. While brainstorming about how to improve a seafood

BY SAMANTHA PUTTERMANNNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – When a Polish family decided to move some of its distillery business to the United States, there

BY SARAH NORCININNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – The laptop in Officer Bryan Rentas-Pina’s car beeped and the bottom corner flashed red. Rentas-Pina scrolled through

BY SARAH NORCININNB Student Reporter It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday when Creative Loafing’s Meaghan Habuda, 23, arrives at the Mad Beach Craft Brewing Company