Hillsborough County News

The first body was discovered in Thonotosassa around 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Ten minutes later, a second body was found in a different location.

A Hillsborough County woman jumped to her death from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge this morning, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies from Hillsborough and Polk counties are serving a court authorized search warrant at the Lakeland home where Dorice Donegan "Dee Dee" Moore was living.

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are investigating a break-in at Alonso High School, near Westchase, where several animals raised for a Florida State Fair exhibit were killed and others are missing.

Hillsborough County is going to court again in an attempt to force a second former sheriffa s deputy to vacate a rent free home in a public park.

Just over a week ago, a friend of a missing Florida lottery winner approached an acquaintance with a chilling request, according to detectives: Dig up the body of the dead man in her backyard.

Authorities say high winds knocked over a tent during the Florida State Fair's opening day, injuring seven people who had to be taken to the hospital.Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said in a press release that three of those sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries when the tent was upended Friday at the fairgrounds in Tampa.

In April, authorities say, Dorice "DeeDee" Moore bought bags of lime and hired a man to dig a hole in Plant City for the body of 42-year-old Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare.

For Abraham Lee Shakespeare, who could barely read or write but knew his way around the Bible, Nov.

Richard McTear Jr. took the stand on Wednesday in an attempt to blame his ex-girlfriend for initiating the altercation that led to his being charged with battery.

The case of the pilfered porker has been solved. The pig, being kept as a project for the Future Farmers of America, was stolen from Armwood High School on Saturday, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 8:03 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 8:13 a.m. PLANT CITY Police removed human remains from woods in eastern Hillsborough County Tuesday night.

Hillsborough County Republican Party Chair Deborah Cox-Roush says that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will headline the party's Lincoln Day dinner on March 6. Cox-Roush said she heard last week that DeMint would be in Florida early next month, and so she and one of her Committee members contacted the Senator, and he agreed to speak at the ...

Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 11:31 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 11:31 p.m. LAKELAND The woman called "the person of interest" in the death of Lakeland Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare denied Monday night that she "pulled the trigger." Abraham Shakespeare "God knows I did not pull that trigger and the court system will ...

Ten dogs, four rabbits, a ferret and a bird were seized from a Tampa home Thursday after investigators determined the animals were "severely dehydrated and emaciated and starving," Hillsborough County Animal Services spokeswoman Marti Ryan said.

Deputies arrested two men and charged them with murder after the discovery of a man's body Saturday morning in the woods behind a home at 14408 Sydney Road in Dover, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

Winning millions of dollars in the Florida Lottery should have been the best thing that ever happened to Abraham Shakespeare.

A new upscale hotel and spa in Clearwater is nearly ready to open after years of construction.

A second man has been arrested on two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of two men during a New Year's Day drug deal in Tampa, deputies say.

President Obama on Thursday announced $1.25 billion of stimulus funding for a high-speed rail line stretching from Tampa to Orlando - and he also promised to return to ride the train once it's finished.