LAKELAND, FL. – The Lakeland Police Department, in partnership with local community and government partners, is hosting the first PEACE TEEN SUMMIT on Friday, July 30, 2021. The event will take place from 9:00 a.m. until noon, with registration opening at 8:00 a.m. at the…
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50-Year-Old Holiday Woman Gets 5 Years For Consumer Fraud Schemes
PASCO COUNTY, FL. – U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Lori Owen, a/k/a Lori Corrigan, 50, Holiday, to five years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank, wire, and mail fraud. As part of her sentence, the Court also…
Read More 50-Year-Old Holiday Woman Gets 5 Years For Consumer Fraud SchemesPlant City Man Arrested In Fatal Mulberry Hit And Run After Turning Himself In
POLK COUNTY, FL, – An 18-year-old man from Plant City is in the Polk County Jail after turning himself in at a PCSO substation, hours after he hit and killed a pedestrian in Mulberry and then fled the scene. According to the affidavit, Brock Case,…
Read More Plant City Man Arrested In Fatal Mulberry Hit And Run After Turning Himself InTampa Bay Area, Florida Gulf Red Tide Status Update
A bloom of the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, persists on the Florida Gulf Coast and in Tampa Bay. Over the past week, K. brevis was detected in 132 samples. Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were observed in 86 samples: five from Pasco County, 28 from Pinellas County,…
Read More Tampa Bay Area, Florida Gulf Red Tide Status UpdateWANTED: 25-Year-Old Katrell Hubbard, 2nd Degree Murder In Tampa
TAMPA, FL. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has identified a suspect involved in a homicide last week. Detectives have identified Katrell Hubbard, 25, as a suspect in the murder of a man that took place at the Willow Brooke Apartments on Hellenic Drive during…
Read More WANTED: 25-Year-Old Katrell Hubbard, 2nd Degree Murder In TampaLakeland Man Sought By The FBI For Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
LAKELAND, FL. – A 21-year-old Lakeland man is being sought by the FBI for his role in the January 6th US Capitol breach, according to Polk County Sheriff’s Office. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said that the FBI reached out and requested that they spread…
Read More Lakeland Man Sought By The FBI For Jan. 6 Capitol Breach34-Year-Old Lakeland Woman Swerves, Striking And Killing 4 Men Changing A Tire On Florida I-75
Four men were killed while changing a tire on I-75 South overnight, when a car veered onto the roadway’s shoulder, according to Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers say that seven people were traveling southbound in a pickup truck, towing a trailer when they blew a tire…
Read More 34-Year-Old Lakeland Woman Swerves, Striking And Killing 4 Men Changing A Tire On Florida I-75Former Hillsborough County Sheriff Cal Henderson Passes Away At 77
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL. – Former Hillsborough County Sheriff Cal Henderson has passed away at 77. Sheriff Henderson began his law enforcement career in 1965 with the Tampa Police Department, in 1967 joined the United States Border Patrol, and then served with the Central Intelligence Agency…
Read More Former Hillsborough County Sheriff Cal Henderson Passes Away At 7721-Year-Old Man Facing DUI Manslaughter After Fatal Friday Morning Crash
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man following a fatal crash early Friday morning. At approximately 2:30 a.m. on July 16, 2021, a blue Hyundai Santa Fe, driven by Taylor Silva, 21, was traveling eastbound on Bearss Avenue East approaching…
Read More 21-Year-Old Man Facing DUI Manslaughter After Fatal Friday Morning CrashFirst Canadian Flights Resume At Tampa International Airport
After more than six months of suspended service to Tampa International Airport’s largest international destination, nonstop flights to Canada will return on July 17 with the resumption of service to Toronto aboard Air Canada. Air Canada last offered limited seasonal flights from Toronto between October 2020 and January…
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