A kitchen worker suffered first-degree burns to his face and arms Thursday night as he was cleaning the stove at a sushi restaurant, Tampa Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

November 20, 2008

Thinking he had been released from jail legitimately, Michael Hess went back to the restaurant where he had worked and asked about getting his job back. ...more

January 13, 2008

Thinking that he had been released legitimately, Michael Hess, the longtime South Tampa cook who lived on the lam under the assumed identity of a dead man for nearly three decades, went back to the restaurant where he worked and asked about getting his job back. But his release from jail was a mistake and short-lived and within eight hours, Hess, 57, was back in handcuffs. And within 10 hours, he was in a van headed for prison. ...more

January 12, 2008

TAMPA - She saw Bobby Joe Helms in person for the first time today in a Hillsborough County courtroom. After serving 13 years in prison for rape, he was a free man. The woman, now 60, is one of about a dozen women whom Helms acknowledged attacking in the early 1980s as part of a plea agreement decades ago in which he linked himself to about 10 rapes and four attempted rapes. ...more

October 8, 2007