Tears, cheers fill final day [Times photo: Ken Helle] Hillsborough County students bid farewell to their friends and teachers on the last day of school, then say hello to summer vacation.

Ernest Hooper
Kudos to athletes; tip of hat to Pepin's
The room was decorated with green, gold and white balloons. It was filled with the sounds of hip-hop, the smell of Spanish chicken and the smiles of eight Chamberlain High graduates as they mingled with well-wishers.

Hillsborough County news
Judge grants teen a lawyer
The same judge who made the youth defend himself at a hearing in an auto theft case has offered him free counsel.

Family saved from burning car; 1 dies
A firefighter and bystanders help pull the family from a blazing accident caused when a tanker rear-ends their Saturn on Interstate 275.

Missing girl, 14, found with baby
The child, missing for two years from DCF custody and whose case is compared to Rilya Wilson's, is now a mother.

Another wreck frays neighborhood nerves
Shadybrook Drive residents want the county to find a way to keep cars from careening into their back yards.

Secret DCF files sold at auction
The department will investigate how the boxes, marked "shred," were sold to a reporter at WTSP-Ch. 10.

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