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The fatal crash on the evening of June 9 in Riverview, Fla., sparked a hunt for the truck's driver, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Investigators tracked down the suspect using an unlikely clue: a scathing one-star review of a business on Google. "Just doing this review because the owner or son of the owner had a big accident on 301 and Balm River involving a couple on a motorcycle," the review read, according to court documents. "The thing is he [fled] the scene and all I got was his company name on his white truck. Please if anyone seen his...

A coal company is building a new facility in western Kentucky. Riverview Coal LLC operates a massive underground coal mine in Union County. The new $35 million facility will be built in neighboring Henderson County, according to a media release from the Kentucky governor’s office. The project will create 260 jobs. …

If you have a strong stomach and two months to kill, NASA might pay you $19,000 to stay in bed and spin around a centrifuge for that period. You’d be on bed rest for sixty days while researchers study the effects of weightlessness on the human body. The test will be conducted in Germany so make sure your passport is up-to-date. If you want to participate you’ll need to be able to speak German, be between the ages of 24 and 55 and be healthy. After your 60-day nap you’ll be required to stick around for another month to be...

“I don’t like that full feeling when I’m running, so I don’t drink that much.” For Judy Williams, a 56-year-old single mom from Riverview, Florida, this statement doesn’t hold true anymore, at least not after a life altering hospital visit in 2015 after she ran the Gasparilla Distance Classic. Williams has been racing in the Classic since 1989, and she loves doing all four challenges: the 5K, 8K, 15K, and half marathon over the course of two days. She even ran while pregnant with her two daughters, Kelly, 19, and Abby, 18. The Classic is the race Williams looks forward...

A Florida man allegedly shouted “Allah Akbar” repeatedly as police arrested him for shooting his wife, stabbing his two children, and setting his house ablaze. Police arrested Ronnie Oneal, who identifies as a member of The Nation of Islam, at the house of his partner Kenyatta Barron, in Riverview, Florida in response to a 911 call from Barron claiming that she had been shot, according to Tampa Bay Times. Officers found Barron dying of a gunshot wound in the front yard of a neighboring house. Firefighters responding to a fire set in Barron’s house found Barron and Oneal’s 9-year-old son,...

Note: The following text is a quote: Delta Flight 273 Passenger Charged with Interfering with Flight Crew and Making False Bomb Threats on Aircraft BANGOR, ME—Derek Michael Stansberry, a U.S. citizen and resident of Riverview, Fla., was charged today in a criminal complaint in the District of Maine with interfering with flight crew members and willfully making false threats about an explosive device on an aircraft, U.S. Attorney Paula D. Silsby announced. Stansberry, 27, a passenger on Delta flight 273 from Paris to Atlanta on April 27, 2010, was arrested yesterday after the flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, in...