Now on the market for $2.95 million, a lovingly renovated St. Augustine beach home was once owned by late Gainesville rocker Tom Petty.

That’s where the “Tom Petty Tree” myth came from. “What I did plant certainly wasn’t at the University of Florida,” Petty said with a smirk in 2011. Mudcrutch did play free concerts on ...

Saturday marks the second annual “Tom Petty Day” at Florida football's Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Last season’s version came against LSU on Oct. 15. This season’s occurrence comes against ...

Before Tom Petty became a rock legend, he was just another kid roaming the streets of Gainesville and dreaming of making it big. Now, thanks to Shawn Murphy, fans can trace Petty's early years.

Tom Petty went all rock star on us, but the music icon was very much a Florida guy. The musician, who died Monday at age 66 after suffering a massive heart attack, was born in Gainesville.

Tom Petty , Florida’s most famous native-born rocker, died Monday night in Los Angeles. He most recently performed here in May at Coral Sky Amphitheater. Here is a 2006 story that traces his ...

REVIEW: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers give Florida fans a night to remember at Tampa's Amalie Arena Here's Dylan himself, with whom Petty toured and played in the Traveling Wilburys: "It's ...

A friend sent me a text: “Tom Petty? Say it isn’t true.” It was the first I’d heard that arguably Florida’s most iconic born-and-bred musician had suffered a massive heart attack and was ...

Florida will pay tribute to Tom Petty during Saturday’s football game By Pete Grathoff. October 5, 2017 2:19 PM. Tom Petty performed with the Heartbreakers at the Sprint Center in June. ...

Four years after his death, Tom Petty was awarded an honorary Ph.D from the University of Florida. Petty passed away in October 2017 after suffering an accidental overdose.

For all the losers who got lucky in life, all the scruffy and spindly overachievers who believed in their heart that three chords and the right line could win over the American girl next door, ...