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Body believed to be missing Tampa mom found
Police in Florida say they found a body that they believe belongs to a woman who was reported to have been abducted earlier this week alongside her daughter, according to CBS News affiliate WTSP. Sylvia Pagan, 34, was last seen in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday morning, WTSP reported. The Tampa Police Department issued a "Missing & Endangered Alert" for Pagan, describing her as a 5'3 woman weighing about 155 pounds. At 1 a.m. local time on Monday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued an Amber Alert for Pagan's 9-year-old daughter, Briana. Tampa police said in a news release that they believed Briana "may...
Tampa’s Beer Can Island isn’t for sale anymore
TAMPA — Flip-flop is not just the name of popular island footwear. Three months after putting Pine Key up for sale for $14.2 million and shutting it down to the public, the popular Tampa Bay boating destination better known as Beer Can Island is again open for business and off the market — well, 90% of it, anyway.
Police: Man was driving without license when he hit, killed pedestrian in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. — A woman is dead after authorities say a driver without a valid license hit her with his vehicle. Tampa police say they responded to a reported pedestrian versus vehicle crash after 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of South Carter Street and West Julia Street. When...
Mother points police to bedroom of teen son wanted on warrants
A mother pointed police to the bedroom of her teen son who was wanted on warrants charging him with felonies. Officers showed up at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the home of 19-year-old Hunter Blake Maier at 713 Cleveland Ave. where they met his mother in the driveway, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. She told officers her son was in his bedroom.
Tampa now has a racial reconciliation committee. Here are the members.
Last month, the Tampa City Council unanimously approved the formation of a committee tasked with examining and addressing persistent racial inequities in Florida’s third-largest city. The formation of the 13-person Race Reconciliation Committee came more than three years after the council formally apologized for the city’s racist past. The...
5 Hillsborough schools will close this month. Here is a final look.
Asked to name her favorite subject at Tampa’s Cleveland Elementary School, Jailise Vega said, “Can I name two?”. An A and B student, she enjoys math and reading equally. But she’s nervous about August, when she will transfer to Witter Elementary after Cleveland closes later this month. Jailise, 9, will need to make new friends.
A pole fire caused a mass Tampa Bay internet outage, company says. Is it a warning?
PINELLAS PARK — A hint of smoke smell still hung in the air along Park Boulevard near 73rd Street North, days after a utility pole caught fire and, according to the provider, sparked a mass Spectrum internet outage Saturday. The frayed end of a snapped cable jutted off the charred pole as the possible culprit.
3 men charged with selling appliances stolen from new homes in their own showrooms
TAMPA, Fla. (TND) — Authorities say they stopped part of a theft ring that involved selling brand new appliances stolen from new construction homes in Florida. Those homes were in five counties, and three men were arrested — accused of buying the appliances and reselling them in two makeshift showrooms: a house and a storage facility, in and around Tampa.
'It can happen to you': Billboards in Northwest Florida warn of fentanyl's deadly impact
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Several new billboards across Northwest Florida are warning about the dangers of fentanyl. The project is organized by those who've lost loved ones to drugs. "For some reason I was left here to be their voices," said Cherie Hoffman, whose son died from fentanyl poisoning. Hoffman's son...
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