As King Charles III arrives, a look back at decades of royal visits to the U.S.<\/a>
King Charles III\u2019s trip to the United States this week is evoking memories of past royal visits, from King George VI’s first journey across the Atlantic in 1939 to the many trips made by Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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RAYS START SERIES IN CLEVELAND | The Tampa Bay Rays, who have won four straight games, hit the road tonight for the first of three games at the Cleveland Guardians. Steven Matz will start for Tampa Bay, with first pitch set for 6:10 p.m.
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TAMPA LANE CLOSURE |\u00a0 The outside southbound lane of Florida Avenue between West Fletcher Avenue and West Prince Street will be closed on Tuesday as the Tampa Water Department works to perform maintenance on the distribution system. The completion of the work with a return to normal traffic patterns is expected by Friday, May 1 at 4 p.m.
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DUNKIN’ PAY-IT-FORWARD DAY |\u00a0Dunkin\u2019 is celebrating Tampa Bay Lightning fans and fueling the excitement of the team’s postseason with a special Pay-It-Forward event on National Pay It Forward Day, Tuesday, April 28, from 7 a.m. – 8 a.m., at the Dunkin\u2019 located at 222 W. Waters Ave.\u00a0Beginning at 7 a.m., the first 50 guests, both in-store and in the drive-thru, will receive a free medium Bolt Jolt, which is a blueberry cobbler iced coffee and also ThunderBug\u2019s favorite Dunkin\u2019 order.
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Tuesday, April 28<\/p>\n
UK’s King Charles addresses joint meeting of U.S. Congress\u00a0
\nU.S. Supreme Court hears case concerning U.S. company allegedly involved in Chinese Falun Gong persecution
\nCourt hearing on government intention to deport Kilmar \u00c1brego Garcia to Liberia 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
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A Tampa man is dedicated to helping adults improve their softball hitting skills. He offers coaching for free each week.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not just coaching the techniques of the sport \u2014 there is also lots of encouragement for people who might otherwise give up on playing the game.<\/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":248760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[834,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-248759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-evening-briefing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248759","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=248759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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