A state-run immigration detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, has been operating in Big Cypress National Preserve for six months. The facility is managed by the Florida Division of Emergency ...

The Thompson School District approved a two-year calendar to address concerns about overheated classrooms in August. School will start about a week later for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years. The ...

Juan Carlos Chavez is the immigration reporter, covering immigration, diverse communities and the intersection with politics. He can be reached at jchavez@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of ...

Buffalo Bills linebacker Shaq Thompson started at linebacker on Sunday. He went down with an neck injury on the second series against the Cleveland Browns. Thompson was hurt in the first quarter while ...

The Miccosukee Tribe officials say they are moving forward with their legal battle against the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, arguing that Florida’s acceptance of ...

A federal judge in Florida decided on Thursday to reject a detained immigrant’s lawsuit seeking to close “Alligator Alcatraz” with his request for a preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Kyle ...

A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by a detainee at Florida’s state-run immigration detention center in the Everglades to stop the DeSantis administration from holding immigrants at ...

Two years after Klay Thompson's tumultuous split with the Warriors, there are some new rumblings that he could return to Golden State to finish out his NBA career. Thompson left the Warriors in July ...

Banging the murder weapon on a table in front of the jury with an expressive delivery could be labeled as part of longtime 15th District Attorney General Tommy Thompson's style as a prosecutor. But ...

A longtime manager of an upscale Palm Beach restaurant was detained and is being held Alligator Alcatraz. Family members allege he was shackled and forced to eat from the floor, and that conditions ...

The newly alleged brutality at two Florida prisons might be customary in some third-world dictatorship. It was assumed to be intolerable in America. Reports from two respected organizations describe ...