PUBLIC SAFETY

May 26, 2018

TAMPA — Eighteen-year-old Cameron Coyle Herrin killed a woman and her child Wednesday racing his Mustang down Bayshore Boulevard, according to police. But Saturday, his lawyer asked that once he gets out of jail, he be allowed to keep driving.

Apr. 21, 2018

TAMPA — The first time deputies arrested Samuel Morrissey Jr., he faced charges of possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed firearm. The judge gave him a break by withholding adjudication. Ten days later, he asked for his Glock back. .

 

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Apr. 7, 2018

TAMPA — Two men feuded over spit before one fatally stabbed the other in the chest at a busy Tampa intersection on Wednesday, according to police and witness accounts.

 

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Apr 26, 2018

TAMPA — A customer visited Wingstop on Sunday night to pick up his order. What happened next was off-menu...

SERIAL KILLINGS

Nov. 28, 2017

TAMPA — One of the most intense dragnets in city history ended Tuesday with a tip to a police officer sitting in a McDonald's doing her paperwork. Read more...

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Dec. 1, 2017

City officials said the McDonald's worker who turned in a gun that led to the arrest in the Seminole Heights serial killings will receive "every penny" of the $110,000 reward, but...

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Nov. 20, 2017

Kenny Hoffa surprised everyone when he made the seven-hour drive from Charleston, S.C., to Tampa's Seminole Heights to attend a dinner set up to thank police for working hard to solve a string of recent killings..

Nov. 16, 2017

Members of the black community expressed appreciation on Thursday for police efforts to find the person responsible for killing four residents of southeast Seminole Heights in recent weeks.

Oct. 31, 2017

Dozens of princesses, superheroes and Star War characters who stood no more than waist high filled their bags with candy handed out by police officers Tuesday evening at Giddens Park in Seminole Heights.

Nov. 9, 2017

A month after the killings began, numbers from the department reveal how police are going about it: Arrests in the area more than doubled in October compared to the same month a year earlier.

Oct. 19, 2017

Police were investigating what they were calling a suspicious death in southeast Seminole Heights Thursday night, near the location of two fatal shootings last week.

Oct. 13, 2017

A city of Tampa employee discovered the body of a 32-year-old woman who apparently had suffered upper body trauma, police said.

(Photo by Luis Santana / Tampa Bay Times)

Aug. 17, 2017

TAMPA — The blast happened suddenly, with enough force to toss Carlton Nelson across the power plant’s floor. When he came to, the veteran Tampa Electric mechanic lifted his head and squinted. The tank he had been trying to fix was spewing a deadly substance called slag from an open door, like a volcano gushing lava. Nearby, a forklift was melting in the molten goo. Read more...

July 8, 2017

TAMPA — Tina Partridge wasn't expecting to see her dad at the door. He was working a contract job at a Tampa power plant, but made the drive to Jacksonville to surprise his grandsons."The boys were thrilled," Partridge recalled. Read more...

(Photo by Octavio Jones / Tampa Bay Times)

Nov. 9, 2017

TAMPA — Police have little to say about their ongoing investigation into the Seminole Heights killings. But a month after the killings began, numbers from the department reveal how police are going about it: Arrests in the area more than doubled in October compared to the same month a year earlier. Read more...

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Dec, 11, 2017

TAMPA — When her apartment complex caught fire Monday afternoon, Peaches McIntyre grabbed her four children and baby stroller and ran outside.Hours later, she looked at the smoldering building with her 5-year-old autistic son, Choice Underwood, hugging her leg. Her family was now homeless.... Read more...

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HURRICANE IRMA

April 22, 2016

About 85 percent of the seats on the busses that traverse the campus area five days a week are empty, and some buses make a full round-trip completely empty. The U of M paid nearly $725,000 in 2015 to Groome Transportation of Tennessee, the private company that operates the shuttles.

April 8, 2015

After suffering insults, slaps to the face and being forced to answer to nicknames like “Fail,” 11 University of Memphis sorority pledges stood in line for one last humiliation. Other Zetas jeered as a tall women went down the line beating faces. During the attack, one pledge heard the crunch of her own nose breaking.

Sept. 9, 2015

The University of Memphis used student money designated for projects that push the campus to go green to build an outdoor dining area where Aramark, a multi-billion dollar food corporation, could sell food.