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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 thr [...]
Plant 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 an [...]
Three Missing Children In Hillsborough County Located Safe
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL. - The three children reported missing in Hillsborough County have been located and are safe, according to Hillsborough Count [...]
Tampa 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 [...]
28-Year-Old Winter Haven Man Arrested In Death Of 14-Year-Old Lakeland Girl
POLK COUNTY, FL. - A 28-year-old Winter Haven man has been arrested in the fatal hit and run that took the life of a 14-year-old Lakeland girl, and [...]
WANTED: 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 Katrel [...]
34-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 Patro [...]
Former 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 car [...]
21-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 [...]
One Person Rescued From Elevator After Tampa Fire Responds To Alarm At Element Apartments
TAMPA, FL. - One person was rescued from an elevator on Friday morning after a water leak in a Tampa Apartment building flooded a portion of the stru [...]