By Sean Bowes
Construction has started on the new Pasco-Hernando Community College (PHCC) full-service site, to be called the Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch. The school is scheduled to open and hold classes by the spring semester of 2014.Continue reading
I wanted to thank local family, implant and cosmetic dentist Dr. Nicole Mitchell, DMD, for inviting me and the entire New Tampa & Wesley Chapel Neighborhood News crew to join her and her crew on Nov. 7 at The Palms Lounge at Peabodyโs to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Dr. Mitchellโs dental office in Highwoods Preserve in New Tampa.Continue reading
Sheryl Young
New Identities hair Studios founder Kelly Rockquemore started her 20-year career as a hair salon owner in a tiny space on Fowler Ave. in Tampa. But Kelly says she always wanted, one day, for her beauty business to stand out from the thousands of salons in the Tampa Bay area.Continue reading
At our press time, Tampa Police Department (TPD) detectives were still trying to unravel the details of what has been called the โsuspicious deathโ of Henry Hilliard Shell, III, 79, a Tampa-based insurance company owner and real estate developer.Continue reading
Kushnerโs body was found just eight hours after a clerk at the BP gas station at 2230 E. Fletcher Ave. found the body of Huayvez Gomez-Mejia, 25, of Tampa, who was reportedly robbed for $8 and a cell phone.
According to HCSO, Brandon Dewayne Jones, 27, confronted Gomez-Mejia at the gas station and punched him in the side of the head with his fist before robbing him. The Hillsborough County Medical Examinerโs Office performed an autopsy and ruled Gomez-Mejiaโs death was due to blunt force trauma to the head.
Jones was arrested around 10:30 p.m. on November 15, at 13618 N 22nd St., which he has listed as his home. He is being held at the Hillsborough County Jail, without bail, on first degree murder and robbery charges.