Clearwater News

Check out this story on wtsp.com: http://on.wtsp.com/1mJfT5Z A Sand Key Park lifeguard and another beach goer were indirectly hit by lightning during a storm that passed through the area late Thursday morning.

The five friends gathered around the wooden table for their biweekly game of pinochle at the Senior Center of Clearwater.

When the renovated Capitol Theatre reopened for business last December, concertgoers were wowed by its acoustics, its lineup of shows, its state-of-the-art sound system, its wraparound exterior balcony and the cool bars in its lobby and mezzanine.

Melba Rilott, of Palm Harbor, recently entered her three quilts in the "Garden of Quilts" show held at the Blue Ridge Community College in Hendersonville, N.C., and won prizes for each.

A national tournament featuring a fast-paced cross between rugby and football could be coming to the beach in Treasure Island.

DUI checkpoint in Clearwater Friday Pinellas Sheriff's deputies will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint in Clearwater from late Friday into early Saturday morning.

Former Live Oak Mayor A.P. "Buddy" Nott died at his home Wednesday. Nott served Live Oak for several years as mayor.

A Pinellas Park man suffered serious injuries during a 10-vehicle crash that occurred just after 5 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 19 north of Curlew Road.

The renaissance that has been blossoming in St. Petersburg in recent years received an official East Coast Establishment imprimatur back in January when the 'Burg landed on the New York Times list of 52 destinations in the world to see in 2014, on the same list as The Vatican, Dubai and the Arctic Circle.

Mayor Rick Kriseman introduced Anthony Holloway as the city's new police chief at an 11 a.m. news conference Tuesday.

The city of Clearwater and the Southwest Florida Water Management District have agreed to each pay a maximum of $200,000 to revamp the Jeffords Street stormwater outfall, which currently consists of grated inlets that pour into 1,100 feet of 15-inch vitrified pipe that discharges into Clearwater Harbor.

Dolphin Tale is polished, inspiring, and moving. It seems there's almost always room in our world for cynicism, but this film just about squeezes it all out.

Consumer-goods giant Unilever is closing an ice cream factory in the Tampa Bay area and laying off roughly 210 people.

Mayor Rick Kriseman has picked a surprise candidate to lead the St. Petersburg Police Department, after eliminating all four known finalists over the weekend.

Three massive fires since the beginning of June have highlighted the threat lightning poses in the North Dakota oil patch, and in each case it was tanks that store the toxic saltwater associated with drilling - not the oil wells or drilling rigs - that were to blame.

The latest figures from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity show Pinellas County's unemployment numbers unchanged for June.

It's Friday!! Some music happening tonight that you might want to know about.

From the opening of the Tampa Bay Home Show to American Idol finalists in Clearwater, here are five things occurring in Florida on Friday.

Clean comedy is usually hard to find on club stages, but you have a couple of options this weekend.

Clearwater, Florida - "Get the lunatics off the road, sorry," that's one pedestrians reaction on how to make Gulf to Bay Boulevard safer.