When John Feegel started as Hillsborough County's chief medical examiner in 1973, his office was in the basement of Tampa General Hospital. ...more

February 28, 2009

When John Feegel started as Hillsborough County's chief medical examiner, his office was in the basement of Tampa General Hospital. The office moved into a more spacious 8,000-square-foot building on Morgan Street in 1978. Thirty years later, the building became cramped, and there wasn't a proper place for families, funeral directors, law enforcement or reporters who frequent the building. Feegel died in 2003, but today his son was on hand for the grand opening of the office's new location, a 31,500-square-foot complex at 11025 N. 46th St. ...more

February 26, 2009

The new 31,500-square-foot Hillsborough County Medical Examiner complex has its grand opening Thursday. ...more

February 25, 2009

A Citrus County medical examiner ruled Saturday that the deaths of Alicia Chomic and her three young sons are consistent with a murder-suicide. ...more

November 2, 2008

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office is moving from its downtown office on Morgan Street to higher ground near the University of South Florida. ...more

September 25, 2008

The case of 14 babies who received accidental overdoses while in intensive care has raised new questions about how a common blood-thinning medication could be given to infants repeatedly in the wrong dosage. ...more

July 12, 2008

From "Scarface" to "Miami Vice," Florida's drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit. ...more

June 16, 2008

Two people died in a murder-suicide in Inverness on Thursday night, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 8, 2008

The two people found dead in Mulberry on Wednesday appear to be murder-suicide victims, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 17, 2008

Investigators are trying to determine how a mother and her two young children were overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that spread no farther than a storage room at the motel where they lived. ...more

January 16, 2008