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FDLE TAMPA (WFLA) – A Missing Child Alert has been issued for two-month-old Matthew Smith. According to FDLE, the child was last seen in the North Fort Myers, Florida area and may be in the custody of Monica Myers and Ben Smith Jr. Deputies describe Myers as a white female,…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Cruise ships are returning to Tampa Bay. On Saturday, Port Tampa Bay will see it’s first departing cruise ship in more than a year. Businesses tell 8 On Your Side they’ve felt that loss. Zelda’s Cafe & Deli has sat across from Port Tampa Bay for…

ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) – A missing person report on Miya Marcano reveals deputies spoke with Armando Caballero before he became the prime suspect in her disappearance. Marcano, a 19-year-old Valencia College student was reported missing Sept. 24. Her body was found more than a week later at the Tymber Skan…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After a majority of voters in Hernando County approved an increase in property taxes to fund school initiatives, the Hernando County School District will be putting those dollars to work by increasing school safety with a School Safety Guardian program. Guardians will work alongside School Resource…

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Leon County circuit court judge denied a request from a Sarasota business to allow it to require customers be vaccinated, upholding a state law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis banning “vaccine passports.” The law “assures open markets,” wrote Judge Layne Smith. “Prohibiting businesses from requiring…

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Leon County circuit court judge denied a request from a Sarasota business to allow it to require customers be vaccinated, upholding a state law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis banning “vaccine passports.” The law “assures open markets,” wrote Judge Layne Smith in his order denying…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — One of the mostly hotly-contested battles in politics has begun its once-in-a-decade fight. State lawmakers are beginning the process of redistricting, where they will draw new maps laying out how the state is broken into districts for representation in the U.S. Congress and the Florida House…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The man accused of murdering three people in Davenport at the beginning of October now faces a grand jury indictment for attempted murder and three counts of first-degree murder. Shaun Paul Runyon, 39, was in Polk County working for J&B Electric, Inc., a Pennsylvania electric company,…

COOPER CITY, Fla. (WESH) — A celebration of life was held for Miya Marcano on Wednesday in Broward County where the 19-year-old was from. Family and friends gathered to mourn her passing but kept a focus on the good times. “She was more like a little sister to me,” one…

MIAMI (AP) — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. “Is there any way that I could get there?” Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small third-story window of the hospital in Jacksonville. The…