It’s like a supermarket for Navy SEALs. A grocery store for Green Berets. A Costco for commandoes. It’s a conference for military special operations forces and their gadgets, weapons and tools. The Special Operations Forces Industry Conference is held yearly in Tampa. Here, the U.S. Special Operations Command — the Tampa-based unit that oversees all…

The faces are haunting. They stare, straight ahead, unblinking and made of malleable clay. There are fourteen total, all busts of the missing, the unidentified, the murdered. The forgotten. These faces appeared before law enforcement, University of South Florida experts and the public for the first time on Friday. The clay busts were the effort…

When 10-year-old Annika Emmert patted Winter the dolphin’s smooth back at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Thursday, she thought that was the best part of her morning. She was wrong. Cozi Zuehlsdorff, the actress who starred with Winter in the “Dolphin Tale” movies, set a cooler next to Annika. The girl opened it, thinking it…

Carnival said Thursday it was spending about $400 million to clean up the air pollution from the massive diesel engines it uses to power more than 70 cruise ships. The company said it had decided to invest more money and put the technology in more ships than initially planned. Last year, Carnival said it would…

SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Authorities hope to get a better look at a sinkhole that swallowed a man in his Florida home once demolition crews knock down the remaining walls of the house Monday and begin clearing away the debris. Crews on Sunday razed more than half the home, managing to salvage some keepsakes for…