Christopher Smith, 72, who was recently diagnosed with paralysis, pauses inside his Punta Gorda home on Friday, September 30, 2022, after making it through Hurricane Ian with his wife.
Alejandro Corona Garcia, left, and Paz Quezada, center, who is the mother of Juan and Sergio Guitron, and victim advocate Stella Carabine, right, share a moment after a guilty verdict is read in the retrial of Michael Keetley at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
Burmese refugees Thang Khup, Niang Lun and their two children Samuel Lian, 3, and six-months-old Mercy Vaan, play in their home while waiting for their case worker to arrive on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. The young family began building a new life in the United States on Nov. 9. “I don’t work, have any income, but the government, people around here providing me with food, a place to stay that is a blessing beyond anything I can imagine,” Khup said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis leaves following his remarks during the Governor’s Luncheon on opening day of the Florida State Fair at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.
Israel, 5, front, wears a face shield over his mask in a Kindergarten classroom, where students are seated at a social distance and a student is tuning in via Zoom on the first day of school at Hillel Academy in Tampa on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. The school's faculty planned a "Wizard of Oz" themed welcome to ease students into the new precautions in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Students had their temperatures checked and were asked to wear masks and apply hand sanitizer before entering the school.
People reach for a "MAGA" hat during a re-election rally for President Donald Trump outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020.
University of Tampa freshman Elle McHale, 18, left, and Ellie Cummings, 19, right, react while taking a picture with Robert Burck, 52, center, who is known as Time Square’s Naked Cowboy, during his visit downtown Tampa on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Tami Stevenson helps Nada Stevenson walk up the driveway to a surprise drive by parade in front of their home to celebrate Nada’s 100th birthday in Orem on Saturday, March 28, 2020. “I thought nobody can come cause of the quarantine, but they found a way to do it. It was very interesting,” Stevenson said. “I’m very blessed with my family.”
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall at the Union Events Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020.
Seventh graders of African descent gather at Bowling Green Junior High School for the first session of "My Mind Matters" on Friday, November 2, 2018. WKU's Dr. Lacretia Dye was inspired by her son to organize the spinoff to the university's "Black Minds Matter" discussion series. "They don't know they can be better," Dye said her son told her.
A police officer attempts to detain a protester during a protest on North Dale Mabry Highway on Saturday, July 4, 2020, in Tampa.
People kneel as they protest police brutality in Salt Lake City on, Saturday, May 30, 2020. Protesters joined others across the nation after George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota, died when a video showed an officer kneeling on his neck while he implored, “I can’t breathe.”
Erin Dorsey, 23, embraces her girlfriend Sadie Appleton, 22, at a celebration for the election of 46th President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris outside Casa Biden in Tampa on Sat., Nov. 7, 2020. "Four years of oppression are finally over," Appleton said. "This is just a sigh of relief just to not have to worry about our rights being taken away, and that we have people in the White House now who actually about us- that are about all communities. Not just people who look like them, that care about all Americans of all backgrounds."
Kelsey Louie, Dima Smith, Ainsley Keaveny and Marabelle Coggins, front to back, practice ballet during a social distanced summer class at Patel Conservatory in Tampa on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
The Backstreet Boys perform during the band’s “DNA World Tour” at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
Tampa Bay Caribbean Carnival dancers perform during the Martin Luther King Parade in Tampa on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022.
Tampa Bay Rays fans Mark Berry and Diana DeVercelly kiss with their masks on during the ballgame on opening day with their "baseball tribe" in Tropicana Field's backyard at Ferg's Sports Bar & Grill in St. Petersburg on Friday, July 24, 2020. The group said they have cardboard cutouts of themselves in seats at the stadium since they couldn't physically be there amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vice President Mike Pence waves before boarding Air Force Two following his visit to Florida at Tampa International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Tampa.
Laura McCullough, center, reacts to seeing a message that reads “hi mom,” on a chalk board inside the “Wind Phone” booth as her husband Kevin McCullough, left, stands nearby at Folly Farm Nature Preserve in Safety Harbor on Sunday, February 12, 2023. McCullough’s son Devon Grimmé died at age 27, and she went to talk to him on the day that would have been his 35th birthday.
Maya Arobas, 3, of Belleair, jumps inside a bounce house during Hillel Academy’s Chanukah fair in Tampa on Sunday, December 4, 2022.
Martha Dilley, 95, left, and her son David Dilley, 64, right, of Seminole, pause at their husband and father’s gravesite respectively at Bay Pines National Cemetery in St. Petersburg on Sunday, May 28, 2023.