When she was served with DUI manslaughter charges in a fatal head-on crash on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, Cheryl Riemann told a trooper she didn't even remember being on the highway, the trooper said. ...more

September 26, 2008

A judge today denied bail for Cheryl Riemann, who is facing DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges in the Sept. 10 head-on crash that killed a mother and left the woman's child in serious condition. ...more

September 25, 2008

Four-year-old Summer Moll lies in a hospital bed with a brace on her neck, casts on both arms and metal rods supporting her legs. ...more

September 24, 2008

The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl recovering from a collision with a wrong-way driver on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway released photos of the child today to show intoxicated drivers the harm they cause, she said. ...more

September 23, 2008

Zackery Hicks has a new home. At least for now. Hicks got out of prison last month after serving a 14-year term for robbery and for a while couldn't afford a permanent residence. He had limited options on where to stay because he is a convicted sex offender, so he spent time camping in a field under a Selmon Crosstown Expressway bridge. ...more

September 20, 2008

Zackery Hicks just got out of prison last month after serving a 14-year term for robbery, and his new prison is marked by the roar of overhead traffic and the danger of getting snakebit or beat up. The situation is the way it is because Hicks is a registered sex offender, and this situation is not all that uncommon in Florida, where the oppressive stigma of being a sex offender is nearly insurmountable. Some cities across the nation have passed laws that are so restrictive, sex offenders cannot reside there. ...more

September 19, 2008

TAMPA Zackery Hicks, 42, needed a place to live after serving 14 years in prison on a robbery conviction. But, as a registered sex offender, Hicks wasn't allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, public park, playground or bus stop. ...more

September 18, 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 4-year-old girl injured in a crash Wednesday that killed her mother underwent surgery to relieve pressure in her head, authorities said Thursday. ...more

September 12, 2008