Ernest Hooper
An adrenaline rush with Tampa police; rockin' with the media
My first ride-along with a Tampa Police officer was on its way to an uneventful Friday until the 6.7 seconds it took for a white Geo Storm to go dangerously sidewinding through a neighborhood intersection in Drew Park. We went immediately from calm to chaos.

Hillsborough County news
DROP slicing through the ranks
Local law enforcement agencies will lose dozens of veteran employees to deferred retirements in the next year.

Accident kills one on Fowler Avenue by USF
TAMPA -- One person died and another was critically hurt in a three-car accident Sunday on Fowler Avenue near Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, police said.

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