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MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA- An extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm surge is expected for areas outside the southeastern Louisiana Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System from Port Fourchon, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect. Residents in these areas…
Read More ‘Get Out Now’ Hurricane Sally Strengthens ‘Rapidly’ Mandatory Evacuations
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla.- UPDATED STORY, CLICK HERE. Hillsborough County Sheriff announced moments ago, that with collaborative efforts by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Florida Highway Patrol, Plant City Police Department, and Tampa Police Department led to the arrest of multiple…
Read More Multiple Arrests Made in the I-4 Shooting Death
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Rain fell in angry bands outside Gateway Classic Cars, a massive, museum-like showroom, and a warehouse full of vintage and new high-end vehicles. Unlike a regular car lot, the weather does not affect Gateway’s consignment business, which is located at 351…
Read More Gateway Classic Cars Spotlight Timeless Rides in Gleaming Showroom-Ruskin
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Bars and other alcoholic beverage establishments, can reopen as long as they stay within the parameters of the State’s phase two reopening plan. Indoor capacity is capped at 50%, everyone must be seated at tables, and the same physical-distancing rules for…
Read More Florida Bars and Breweries Can Reopen Today
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. – Deputies assigned to the Major Accident Investigation Team investigate a three vehicle crash with injuries in Pinellas Park. According to investigators, 33-year-old Akeem Edwards was driving his silver Ford Mustang recklessly in the area of 34th Street North and 54th Avenue…
Read More Major Accident Investigation Team investigate a three-vehicle crash with injuries in Pinellas Park
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla.- Kanasia Johnson and her baby, Brinae Sherman, have been located safely, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office today. On Thursday, September 10, Kanasia Johnson, 20, left St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital with her newborn baby girl, Brinae Sherman. Johnson’s parental rights were terminated with her…
Read More Tampa – Missing Newborn and Mom Located Safe
ST. LEO, FL – Saint Leo University was ranked as one of the best values in higher education and one of the best regional universities in the South in 2021 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings, which was released September 14. The university…
Read More Saint Leo University Named as Best Value in South for 2021 by U.S. News & World
TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa Police were dispatched to the Tzadik Oaks Apartments on Sunday night for the report of a shooting. Officers arrived to find a 32-year-old black male victim of a gunshot wound. Although first aid was provided, the victim succumbed to his injuries…
Read More Happening Now: Tampa Police Investigating Overnight Homicide
BRANDON Fla. – In the early morning hours of August 12, 2020, Elizabeth Randolph-Padgett had a premonition. Noticing a light on in her backyard shed, she took her shed keys and walked out of her house, which led to the sudden shooting of Clark Preston,…
Read More “Sex in Shed” Mother’s Premonition Leads to Shooting
TAMPA, Fla. – Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren is announced Sunday, a partnership with the Innocence Project to review past convictions that relied heavily on bite mark evidence, which has been discredited by modern science. The decision comes after prosecutors discovered the wrongful conviction of…
Read More State Attorney’s Office Launches Review of Convictions Based on Bite Mark Evidence