Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge will not be displaying rainbow lights this year and will instead be lit with red, white, and blue lights for over three months. The bridge, which serves as a ...

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse is one of the most tragic and haunting bridge disasters in U.S. history. On May 9, 1980, a freighter collided with a support pier during a violent storm, causing a ...

Hornbuckle, a self-proclaimed Florida cracker ... Hornbuckle knows the Sunshine Skyway Bridge well. He drives across it three times a week. “I saw a flatbed truck in front of me carrying ...

ABOVE: View archive video from the aftermath of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapseTuesday's Baltimore bridge collapse may remind many Floridians of a similar disaster that happened decades ago in ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — This summer, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge will not recognize a handful of awareness events, including Pride. That's because the Florida Department of Transportation has ...

To replace the fallen Skyway, Florida leaders debated options ... won’t take as long as it took to rebuild the Sunshine Skyway. When a similar truss bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Minnesota ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Expect less savings when crossing over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge after the Florida Turnpike quietly raised toll rates on July 1. Drivers making the trek in a standard two ...

For many living in Florida, news of the Francis Scott ... people living around Tampa Bay was the destruction of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, struck by an oil freighter during a stormy morning ...

is drawing tragic comparisons to a similar bridge collapse in Florida 44 years ago. On the morning of May 9, 1980, a freighter slammed into the support columns of the old Sunshine Skyway bridge ...

Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses, rescue operations underway The incident brings back memories of a similar incident that happened in Florida when a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway bridge in 1980.