Jay Cridlin
Education Editor at Tampa Bay Times
Education editor. And so forth. @TB_Times / @tbtnewspaper / [email protected]
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4 days ago |
tampabay.com | Jay Cridlin
The board that governs Florida’s higher education system delivered a stunning rebuke to the state’s flagship college on Tuesday, blocking Santa Ono from becoming the next president of the University of Florida. Citing concerns over Ono’s past statements on diversity, equity, antisemitism and other cultural issues, the board cast aside the former University of Michigan president by a 10-6 vote, with one member absent.
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1 week ago |
tampabay.com | Jay Cridlin
Police in Polk County shot and killed a man who they say swam through a lake of alligators — and was apparently bitten — before grabbing a pair of garden shears and trying to break into a police car. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said that his department received a call early Monday about a man acting erratically at a gas station off State Road 37 in Lakeland. A couple of hours later, they received another call indicating a man was swimming in a lake known to have alligators in a nearby gated community.
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1 week ago |
tampabay.com | Jay Cridlin
Four people are dead after a crash that involved a vehicle rolling off a road and into a house in Ruskin. Hillsborough sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of the crash at around 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Shell Point Road W and 32nd Street NW. Four people inside the vehicle were declared dead at the scene, while everyone inside the house was uninjured. According to an initial statement from the sheriff’s office, there is so far no indication of criminal activity.
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1 week ago |
tampabay.com | Jay Cridlin
A woman who police say shot her daughter is dead after an officer-involved shooting early Sunday in the Palm River-Clair Mel area of Tampa. Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies were responding to a call of a burglary in progress at a home in the 7500 block of Carolton Circle when they got word a woman in the house, who they described as a grandmother, had shot her daughter in the hand. Police went in and removed the daughter, who they say was acting erratically.
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2 weeks ago |
tampabay.com | Jay Cridlin
A Tampa man was arrested on charges of driving under the influence in a fatal crash that shut down a large intersection early Saturday. Jefry Maldonado Hernandez, 25, was driving east on W Busch Boulevard just before 3:30 a.m. when police said he accelerated to beat a yellow light at N Armenia Avenue. After the light turned red, Hernando’s truck crashed into a Lexus being driven by a man in his early 60s, police said. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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