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Facebook user Cornelius King posted this warning on November 19, 2019. Hillsborough County Sheriff says it is a hoax, but the viral message continues to spread online. [Facebook screenshot]
No, sex traffickers aren’t trying to lure Tampa drivers by lying down in the road
A viral post encourages Florida drivers to run over people they see in the street to avoid being attacked.
Jan. 22• Crime
Hillsborough deputies say missing 5-year-old girl is endangered
Hillsborough deputies say Lesly Mendoza, 5, is missing and endangered because of allegations of abuse. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]
Investigators believe Lesly Mendoza, 5, is endangered because of allegations of abuse.
Yesterday• Hillsborough
Teen who was human trafficking victim rescued in Tampa, deputies say
Booking photo of Paige Ashley Fried, 28, who deputies say was placing advertisements on adult escort sites to set up an 18-year-old victim of human trafficking with men seeking sex. [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office]
Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said a 28-year-old woman was using adult escort sites to advertise the teen, who contracted a sexually transmitted disease and was given drugs so she could work...
Yesterday• Crime
Teen killed in Davis Islands crash treated everyone like a best friend
Carlos Medina, a 16-year-old junior at Plant High School, is seen in this undated Facebook photo. [Facebook]
Plant High School junior Carlos Medina was remembered a 16-year-old leader who put others at ease. He was fatally injured in a car crash this past weekend.
Jan. 23• Tampa

LATEST

  1. Live from the Gasparilla 2020 parade and pirate invasion
    5 minutes ago• Tampa
    Boats move into Seddon Channel on Saturday morning ahead of the invasion by the pirate ship Jose Gasparilla. [DOUGLAS CLIFFORD | Times]
    We were warned. Now the pirates are here. Stay with tampabay.com all day for the latest reports.
  2. Tampa Bay area home sales rise, inventories fall in December
    Yesterday• Business
    A for sale sign is seen in front of a home in the Westchase area of Tampa. CHRIS URSO | Times (2013)
    And a spike in cash sales suggests investors were active in the market.
  3. Cops keep a lid on the carousing as hundreds of boaters join the Gasparilla flotilla
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Leading the way up Seddon Channel during the 2014 pirate invasion is the Jose Gasparilla, escorted by a Tampa Police Department boat and surrounded by hundreds of private vessels. [LUIS SANTANA | Times 2014]
    As many as 100 law enforcement boats from some 20 agencies will keep an eye out for drunk operators and boats in trouble.
  4. New Pinellas Bayway bridge taking shape in Tierra Verde
    Yesterday• Transportation
    A look at the construction on the Tierra Verde bridge project which is the bridge between Isla Del Sol and Tierra Verde islands on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 in St. Petersburg. The project began in December 2018 and is scheduled to be completed in summer of 2021. [DIRK SHADD | Tampa Bay Times]
    Dr. Delay takes a deep dive into the construction process for the $56.3 million State Road 679 and Bayway Bridge project .
  5. Bills would give Florida home buyers more time to safeguard valuable tax break
    Yesterday• Business
    A proposed bill in the Legislature would set a statewide referendum on whether to amend Florida's constitution to add a year to the period when home buyers can transfer their accumulated benefits under the Save Our Homes cap on property assessments to a new home. Pinellas County Property Appraiser Mike Twitty says going from two years to three would reduce the possibility that construction delays in a booming real estate market would prevent some buyers from meeting the deadline, costing them potentially thousands of dollars in property tax savings. [SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN | Times (2019)]
    The bill, the idea of Pinellas County Property Appraiser Mike Twitty, would give buyers another year to transfer their tax savings under Florida’s Save Our Homes assessment cap to a home they’ve...
  6. Hillsborough’s top teacher is Miranda Harwood of Brooker Elementary
    Yesterday• Education
    Miranda Harwood, a fourth-grade math teacher at Brooker Elementary School, is the Hillsborough County Teacher of the Year. [Hillsborough County Public Schools]
    The self-described “data queen” uses humor to keep her students engaged.
  7. Commissioners look to snuff out animal breeders, sales within Hillsborough County
    Yesterday• Hillsborough
    This poster was seen January 21 inside a Brandon pet shop owned by All About Puppies, one of two pet retail businesses in Hillsborough County that were granted an exception from county laws prohibiting commercial pet stores from selling animals that came from breeders. [ANASTASIA DAWSON | Times]
    The proposed ordinance would ban all commercial pet retailers and impose strict regulations on breeders operating within the county.
  8. Tampa call center to lay off up to 174 in second round of cutbacks
    Yesterday• Business
    Concentrix has told the state of Florida that it plans to lay off as many as 174 employees from one of the programs it has at the Interstate Corporate Center east of Tampa. This is the same call center hit with 245 layoffs announced in November. (Google street view photo) [Google Street View]
    In November, Concentrix, the California multinational company that runs the center, announced the layoffs of 245 employees.
  9. ‘Arrive Early’: Gasparilla transportation routes and tips to avoid traffic snarls Saturday
    Yesterday• Tampa
    The Jose Gasparilla sails toward the Tampa Convention Center during the annual Gasparilla Pirate Invasion in Hillsborough Bay sailing north to Seddon Channel on Saturday, January 26, 2019. Hundreds of boats join the flotilla. [Tampa Bay Times (2019)]
    A schedule of road closures beginning Friday night, plus bus lines and shuttles to arrive in time for Gasparilla 2020.
  10. Unusual program helped Tampa’s HCI Group diversify its board of directors
    Yesterday• Business
    Loreen Spencer (left) and Sue Watts, the two newest members of HCI Group's board of directors. [HCI Group]
    “I just wish I had thought of this earlier,” the chairman and CEO said.
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