Though an autopsy on an 11-year-old girl who died at a city pool was performed Thursday, there will be no results for at least six weeks, the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office said. ...more

July 10, 2009

Friends of Andrew Martin, a professional wrestler known in the ring as "Test," are in shock today, trying to come to terms with how a bigger-than-life man who loved to ride his Harley to the beach and body slam opponents ended up dead in his Harbour Island home. A cause of death won't be known for weeks, said Dick Bailey, spokesman for the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office, which performed Martin's autopsy over the weekend. The report is awaiting the results of toxicology tests that take that long to complete. Tampa police do not suspect foul play. ...more

March 16, 2009

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

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 medical examiner's office is moving from downtown to near the University of South Florida, where it will have more space for bodies and will be out of a flood zone. ...more

September 24, 2008

Nearly five years ago, the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office turned over what it thought were the skull and other remains of murder victim Allen E. Garner to a mortuary service, which was supposed to cremate those remains. ...more

August 5, 2008

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office isn't responsible for the disappearance of a man's skull, an office spokesman said this morning. ...more

August 4, 2008

No answers have come in the death of 16-year-old Maddie Clermont, who died Thursday after her bedroom caught fire in a northwest Tampa neighborhood. ...more

May 9, 2008