Those who fear a national ID card either have something to hide or have been reading "1984" again. ...more

July 10, 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

Dave Lawson says he knows one way to learn who stole two valuable but deadly snakes from his collection Monday. ...more

January 27, 2009

Hawjin Hama Rashid, a feisty journalist in jeans and a frilly blouse, had come to the morgue in this Kurdish city to research tribal killings of women. ...more

December 21, 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

On a rainy summer day at River Ridge High, anyone who doesn't want to work out must answer to junior Stavros Arianas and senior Trevor Shoun. ...more

September 3, 2008

A Sudanese Airbus carrying 214 people veered off the runway in a thunderstorm and burst into flames late Tuesday, killing dozens unable to escape the inferno. Officials said more than 100 people fled the plane before it was engulfed by towering orange flames. ...more

June 11, 2008

Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress soon will be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving, her attorney, Blair Berk, told a judge Thursday. ...more

January 19, 2008