Year: 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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