TAMPA, Fla. — Thursday marks 44 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck a support column of the old bridge during the morning rush hour. Six cars, a truck ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Thursday marks 44 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, an event that sent shockwaves across the Tampa Bay area. On May 9, 1980, the 19,734-ton Summit Venture freighter ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March took me back 44 years, when an eerily similar disaster happened in Tampa Bay with the collapse of ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — There’s a push to prevent tragedy from happening again. It’s been one year since the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. This week, the ...

The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge — which connects Bradenton and St. Petersburg — was shut down in both directions Wednesday morning after authorities discovered a suspicious package, but traffic ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg's Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida's tallest bridge, has been identified by the National Transportation Safety Board as one of 68 bridges that have an "unknown ...

In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.

REST IN PEACE  FHP says a driver fell asleep and went off-road before crashing, causing a woman to be ejected and die from ...