More snow falls on the Northeast, where huge piles remain from the last storm<\/a>
Light snow fell over parts of the Northeast on Wednesday as people navigated to work and school after a massive storm that dropped piles of powder on streets and sidewalks from Maryland to Maine.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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BOLTS RETURN TO ICE |\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning are back in action tonight after a break for the Winter Olympics. The Bolts host the Toronto Maple Leafs at Benchmark International Arena, with the puck dropping at 7:30 p.m. The Lightning will enter play on a five-game winning streak, in first place in the Atlantic Division, and tied with the Carolina Hurricanes with the most points (78) in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
TAMPA TRAFFIC |\u00a0Repair work to a gravity sewer main located on W. Spruce St. has started and is expected to continue through Friday. The work area spans W. Spruce St. between N. Himes Ave. and N. Sterling Ave., and will require the closure of both eastbound and westbound lanes. Detours will be in place.
\nST. PETE GRAND PRIX FLAG RAISING | Mayor Kenneth T. Welch and the city of St. Petersburg will hold a flag-raising ceremony to kick off the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, in front of City Hall (175 5th St. N). This annual event is open to the public.
\nFREE HURRICANE KITS | Verizon, together with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Rebuilding Together Greater Florida, is hosting a community disaster readiness drive-thru event. Tampa Bay residents are invited to stop by GEICO Lot 14 at the AdventHealth Training Center between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to pick up free disaster readiness kits. Each kit includes essential emergency items such as dry bags, flashlights, first aid kits, solar powered portable chargers, solar powered radios, document bags, and informational disaster prep materials.<\/p>\n
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Thursday, Feb. 26<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton appears at House Oversight deposition on Jeffrey Epstein
\n75th anniversary of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified, limiting the presidency to a maximum of two terms, following a successful campaign in Congress to restore the tradition which held sway before Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first and only president to serve a third – and part of a fourth – term (from 1933-1945)
\nUkraine Day of Resistance to mark Crimea invasion anniversary
\nCommemoration ceremony at the 9\/11 Memorial for anniversary of 1993 WTC bombing<\/p>\n
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Rigatoni al Funghi at Bavaro’s Napoletana & Pastaria in Sarasota– a two story spot off Fletcher Avenue and Main Street. Photo by Matt Infante\/Staff<\/p>\n
Antonio Bavaro grew up in his dad Dan\u2019s restaurant kitchens.<\/p>\n
And now he\u2019s part of the second generation working at\u00a0Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Tampa Bay. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[834,275,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-169281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-evening-briefing","9":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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