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Ben Montgomery - Times Correspondent
Ben Montgomery

Times Correspondent

  1. They went to the Dozier School for Boys damaged. They came out destroyed.
    Aug. 18, 2019• Investigations
    EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN | Times (03/19/2009) In the woods not far from the current Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, up a dirt road, and up a hill is a small cemetery with 31 unmarked graves. Some of the White House Boys think the bodies of children murdered by guards at the Florida School for Boys are buried in the cemetery. Some of the graves can be attributed to students killed in a 1914 fire. Others can be attributed to a flu epidemic that swept the campus, but not all are accounted for.
  2. More ‘possible graves’ found at Dozier School for Boys
    April 11, 2019• The Buzz
    Seen from a distance through the window of a moving van, an inmate at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys tends to the school's kennels on October 13, 2009. [EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN, Times]
  3. Spectacle: The lynching of Claude Neal
    Oct. 30, 2018• Florida
    A St. Petersburg Times headline from the death of Claude Neal.
  5. 17 days, 9 countries: One man's jaunt through Eastern Europe
    Nov. 2, 2017• Travel
    BEN MONTGOMERY | Times Asher Montgomery looks over a canal in Hamburg, Germany's Hafen City, home to museums, restaurants and the city's philharmonic. EASTERN EUROPE for LATITUDES Story by BEN MONTGOMERY
  6. Flames consume Robert E. Lee Elementary in Tampa Heights (w/video)
    Sept. 13, 2017• News
    Robert E. Lee Elementary School, the subject of controversy lately because of its namesake, caught fire Tuesday night. [Courtesy of Renee King]
  7. Enduring the power outage: What would Thomas Edison think?
    Sept. 13, 2017• Local Weather
    Thomas and Mina Edison look out at their Moonlight Garden from Thomas' office, behind them. In 1926, when the garden was planted, Thomas was 79.. Provided by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.

  8. Hurricane Irma: We can't help being looky loos
    Sept. 11, 2017• Local Weather
    Scores of people walk on the floor of Tampa Bay along Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa. The water dramatically receded Sunday afternoon ahead of Hurricane Irma.
  9. Irma spares Tampa Bay, other parts of the state not as lucky
    Sept. 11, 2017• Local Weather
    A tree down came down but missed this 1920s home at 738 Seventh St. N in the Historic Uptown neighborhood of St. Petersburg. Damage became apparent with the light of day Monday morning.
  10. Hurricane Irma: Stay or go? The question we are all contemplating
    Sept. 9, 2017• Local Weather
    Dimly Tamayo, 33, left, her husband William Tamayo, 28, center, both watch her father Omar Perez measure wood to cover the windows of his home ahead of Hurricane Irma in the Palmetto Beach neighborhood in Tampa on Saturday, September 9, 2017.
  11. Crew recounts trip to Cuba aboard pontoon 'sea car'
    Sept. 5, 2017• Life & Culture
    Jim Wolf, 52, of Alma, Michigan, and a crew of friends drove a 27-foot Avalon pontoon boat from Clearwater Beach to Cuba in June. Asked why, Wolf said: "Because we can." The team faced a several storms but made it back to Florida safely. (Photo courtesy Jim Wolf)
  12. Press '1' if you're sick of customer satisfaction surveys
    Sept. 4, 2017• Life & Culture
    [Illustration by Steve Madden | Times]
  13. A year later, Egmont Key wildfire considered a 'good thing'
    Aug. 29, 2017• News
    Charred sabal palms line the west beach on Egmont Key. A July 2016 fire, caused by lightning, burned through about 88 acres but didn’t damage any historic structures.
  14. Epilogue: Small of stature, Matt Cooney was known for never giving up on the golf course
    Aug. 1, 2017• Life & Culture
    Matt Cooney proposed to his girlfriend, Emily VanEtten, while on a golf course. The two planned to get married in November 2018.
  15. Hillsborough and Pinellas to keep park entry fees, while Pasco makes them free again
    July 29, 2017• News
    Jermaine Ferguson takes the $5 entry fee from a visitor at Fort De Soto Park on Wednesday. Pasco County has done away with recession era park fees, but Hillsborough and Pinellas county plan to continue to charge people to use parks like Fort De Soto and Lettuce Lake Park. LARA CERRI | Times

  16. Former Tampa FBI agent Joe Navarro details 'unprecedented' Cold War spy sting in new book
    June 18, 2017• News
    Roderick James Ramsay was sentenced in 1992 for his role in a spy ring that was selling classified secrets about European defenses.
  17. Can a pontoon boat survive the trip from Clearwater to Cuba? (w/video)
    June 14, 2017• News
    From left, Doug Haskell, of Manitou Beach, Michigan, Travis Conners, of Indian River, Michigan, Jim Wolf, of Alma, Michigan, and Charles Chiara, of Pasadena, California, depart from Seminole Boat Ramp in Clearwater on a 27-foot Avalon Ambassador Elite pontoon boat on Wednesday en route to Havana, Cuba, and back -- 700 miles total. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times]
  18. Sand, sea and sunsets aside, 'Mad Beach' just can't relax
    June 4, 2017• Life & Culture
    A view of the businesses at the corner of 150th Avenue at Gulf Blvd and Madeira Way in Madeira Beach. Citizens opposed to dramatic changes in the city's low-slung downtown core succeeded in restocking the City Commission, but debate rages on. [DIRK SHADD | Times ]
  19. Disgraced commissioner Joe Kotvas: 'It is time for the truth of this dark time in my life'
    May 20, 2017• News
    Joe Kotvas, a former Hillsborough County commissioner who went to prison, has written a new book, Found Guilty, But . . .
  20. USF's Erin Kimmerle honored by Hillsborough Bar for Dozier School for Boys work
    May 11, 2017• News
    Erin Kimmerle led the work to exhume remains at the Dozier School for Boys.
  21. Florida faces its past and is sorry, but does an apology really matter?
    May 1, 2017• Life & Culture
    In the nine years since the Florida School for Boys in Marianna closed, USF anthropology researchers unearthed the bodies of more than 50 boys from unmarked graves.
  22. Doug Hughes finally sends his letters to Congress, minus the gyrocopter
    April 13, 2017• News
    Doug Hughes, speaking to the media after appearing in federal court on May 21, 2015, in Washington, D.C., holds up a poster given to him by supporters. [Getty Images]
  23. Tampa Bay Times investigation: Why Cops Shoot
    April 5, 2017• Archive
    Pasco County deputies faced a suspected bank robber during a standoff in 2010.
  24. Meet Aramis Ayala: the Florida State attorney everyone is talking about
    March 27, 2017• Archive
    Aramis Ayala