Angelique Stephens mistreated a dog, causing the animal to become weak and bloated, according to Hillsborough County Animal Services investigators. ...more

October 23, 2008

BUSINESS NOTES SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS: The Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce 2008 Small Business of the Year Awards Gala will be held Thursday at The Palmetto Club, 17004 Dorman Road, Lithia. A reception begins at 6 p.m., and dinner starts at 7 p.m. Individual tickets are $35; corporate tables of eight cost $350 and include preferred seating, signs and event recognition. Register online at www.brandonchamber .com or call (813) 689-1221. The event is sponsored by The Tampa Tribune and The Brandon News & Tribune. ...more

October 22, 2008

CSX Corp. has decided to speed up the closing of Orient Road to repair a railroad crossing, meaning drivers have until 9 tonight to use the road between East Broadway and Adamo Drive (State Road 60). The railroad company was planning to shut down the corridor south of 14th Avenue starting at 5 a.m. Wednesday, but Hillsborough County received word this morning that CSX had sped up its repair schedule by eight hours. ...more

October 14, 2008

Drivers won't be annoyed by loose rails at Palm River railroad crossings much longer. ...more

October 14, 2008

BUSINESS NOTES HOSPITAL PLANS HIGH-TECH UNITS: Several high-tech medical units are under construction and set to open soon at Brandon Regional Hospital. Chief Executive Officer Mike Fencel said a 40-bed Neuroscience Center will be ready to serve patients by the end of this year. People with brain and spinal tumors, epilepsy and spinal disorders will be treated in the fourth-floor unit. In early 2009, noninvasive cancer treatments will be offered in the hospital's CyberKnife Cancer Center, currently under construction. Work on the new BrainLab, where neurosurgeons will perform high-tech brain surgery using state-of-the-art equipment, also is under way. Among those staffing the new neurosurgical unit will be Phillip Henkin, former director of the Spine and Brain Institute at St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville, who recently was hired at Brandon Regional. ...more

October 8, 2008

The grainy surveillance video shows a black Honda sport utility vehicle driving east through the 78th Street toll plaza on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway at 2:08 p.m. Wednesday. ...more

September 16, 2008

A video, released Monday by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority, answers the question that Florida Highway Patrol investigators have been asking for days: exactly where and how did a wrong-way driver, Cheryl Maria Riemann, 25, end up driving east on the westbound lower deck of the expressway. ...more

September 15, 2008

A woman who drove the wrong way on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, causing the death of a mother and injuring a 4-year-old girl, had a level of alcohol in her blood about three times the legal limit, authorities said Saturday. ...more

September 14, 2008

BRANDON The driver who crashed into another vehicle while she was going the wrong way on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, killing a young mother, was arrested today on four charges, including drunken-driving manslaughter, authorities said. ...more

September 13, 2008

A Brandon woman died and her 4-year-old daughter was critically injured Wednesday when a driver going the wrong way on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway collided head-on with their car, investigators said. ...more

September 11, 2008