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Genevieve Redsten - Former Times Reporter
Genevieve Redsten

Former Times Reporter

  1. USF ‘expecting’ but not requiring masks and vaccines in the fall
    Aug. 13, 2021• Health
    Students cross the University of South Florida's Tampa campus on the first day of classes last August. Masks were a requirement then in shared spaces such as classrooms. For the 2021-22 academic year, which starts Aug. 23, there will be no such requirements. But school officials are urging continued mask-wearing indoors and in large gatherings.
  2. COVID clouds another first day of school in Tampa Bay
    Aug. 10, 2021• The Education Gradebook
    Davine Scott, 6, looks at the entrance to Palm River Elementary in Tampa while her mother, Melissa Rodriguez, says goodbye before she starts first grade on Tuesday.
  3. How Tampa’s stingrays and penguins died is still a mystery. It may stay that way.
    Aug. 10, 2021• Tampa
    Among the most popular animal attractions in Tampa are the African penguins at the Florida Aquarium, left, and the stingrays at ZooTampa. The institutions are still investigating mass deaths of the animals in recent weeks.
  5. First day of school in Tampa Bay: high hopes and concern as 2021-22 begins
    Aug. 10, 2021• The Education Gradebook
    Sunlake High School seniors congregate on the school’s football field for Senior Sunrise and Last First Day activities during the first day of school for Pasco County Students on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Land O’ Lakes.
  6. Orlando woman, 20, killed when car flips during a turn in Pasco County
    Aug. 2, 2021• Breaking News
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  7. Residents cleared to return after flooding at Element tower in Tampa
    July 26, 2021• News
    The Element apartment tower in downtown Tampa was ready for residents to move back in Monday. Crews dried the place out and made repairs after water line breaks forced evacuation July 16.
  8. WEDU stands by host Rob Lorei after WMNF firing
    July 23, 2021• News
    Rob Lorei was fired by radio station WMNF after they said he used an ethnic slur in an email. WEDU, on which he hosts a show, is supporting him.
  9. No word yet on when people, or pets, can return to flooded Element Tampa
    July 20, 2021• Tampa
    Lucia Hardin works at Beautify the Beast in the Element apartment tower and Kiwi is one of the pets the business is boarding for free after a flood forced residents to evacuate.
  10. Water line break forces residents from Element tower in downtown Tampa
    July 16, 2021• Breaking News
    Lucia Hardin, with Beautify the Beast pet grooming, carries Lucy, an older labradoodle, out of the Element apartment tower after a water leak forced the building's evacuation. The shop offered to shelter residents' pets.
  11. Largo teen faces hearing Monday in fatal Intracoastal boat crash
    July 15, 2021• Crime
    During a Nov. 2 vigil near John's Pass, candles light a memorial for Rachel Herring, 16, who died in a boat crash the day before.
  12. Another day in Tampa Bay, another boat parade celebrating a Stanley Cup
    July 12, 2021• Lightning
    Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Alex Killorn drives a jet ski while holding the Stanley Cup as teammate Nikita Kucherov gestures to the crowd while celebrating the Lightning’s Stanley Cup victory with a boat parade Monday in Tampa.
  13. Boat parade: How the Lightning and fans celebrated in downtown Tampa
    July 12, 2021• Lightning
    Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Alex Killorn drives a jet ski while holding the Stanley Cup as teammate Nikita Kucherov gestures to the crowd while celebrating the Lightning’s Stanley Cup victory with a boat parade Monday, July 12, 2021 in Tampa.
  14. Palm Harbor food pantry leader faces fraud charge
    July 9, 2021• Breaking News
    Walter Anderson, 76, faces a felony scheme to defraud charge, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
  15. Attack at Pinellas BP station leads to attempted murder charge
    July 9, 2021• Breaking News
    Zachary Pierson, 29, was arrested Thursday on charges of attempted first-degree murder and criminal mischief. Arrest reports say he attacked a man with a metal object at a BP gas station in Seminole.
  16. Seven Florida Aquarium penguins dead of unknown causes
    July 8, 2021• Breaking News
    This 2010 photo shows African black-footed penguins at the Florida Aquarium. Seven of the Florida Aquarium’s African penguins died of unknown causes, Aquarium officials announced in a media release Thursday.
  17. Woman dead after car crash in Tampa Wednesday
    July 7, 2021• Breaking News
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  18. In Elsa’s path, Tampa Bay prepares for storm surge, potential hurricane
    July 6, 2021• Hurricane
    Melissa Loven, Qi Crystal Energy shop owner, (left) and Crea Egan (right) prepare the store ahead of tropical storm Elsa Tuesday, July 6, 2021.
  19. Grieving family brings avid Lightning fan to games — in spirit and photos
    July 1, 2021• Lightning
    Jessica Kreps holds up a sign she made commemorating her brother during the Eastern Conference finals June 25 at Amalie Arena.
  20. Miami condo collapse: 99 feared missing in rubble
    June 24, 2021• Florida
    Fire rescue personnel conduct a search and rescue with dogs through the rubble of the Champlain Towers South Condo after the multistory building partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Thursday, June 24, 2021. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP)
  21. Tampa man arrested in pellet gun killing
    June 23, 2021• Crime
    A Tampa man was arrested Wednesday on a charge that he killed a man with a pellet gun, Tampa police announced.
  22. DNA helps solve Tampa sexual battery during 2007 Gasparilla Parade, police say
    June 22, 2021• Crime
    Jared T. Vaughn, 44, turned himself in June 16 after his DNA matched DNA collected at the scene of a sexual battery in Tampa, police said.
  23. Tampa man arrested on murder charge in heroin overdose death
    June 18, 2021• Crime
    Joseph Stillitano, 31, was charged with first-degree murder under a Florida law that allows the state to seek murder charges when a person dies from an overdose.
  24. Loved ones mourn ‘inseparable’ father and son who drowned off Apollo Beach
    June 18, 2021• Hillsborough
    Pallbearers place the casket of Janosh Purackal, 37, next to his son’s casket at Hillsboro Memorial Gardens on Thursday. Purackal and his son Daniel Purackal, 3, drowned last week in Apollo Beach.