TIMELINE OF TRAGEDY Recent incidents involving East Bay High School students: Oct. 18, 2006 ...more

June 8, 2008

To the students of East Bay High School, it sometimes seemed as if tragedy were picking them off this year in ways both randomly cruel and crazily unfair. ...more

June 8, 2008

Detectives found blood on the library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a signpost outside the entrance and blood on the west wall of the building. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives found blood on a library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a sign post near the entrance and blood on the west wall of the library building. Ultimately, on the evening of April 24, they found blood on the ground near the spot where the family of an 18-year-old senior at East Bay High School found her unconscious and gasping. She had been raped. ...more

June 6, 2008

To the students of East Bay High School, it sometimes seemed as if tragedy were picking them off this year in ways both randomly cruel and crazily unfair. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A teenage rape victim, attacked at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April, suffered a fracture to her forehead, a small fracture near the tip of her nose and suffered multiple strokes because she had been strangled, according to new court documents released today. ...more

June 6, 2008

Those who wish to help the family of the East Bay High School quarterback who died in an automobile crash last month can do so by picking up a phone and ordering a pizza. Rex Ballenger, 18, of Apollo Beach, died May 19 at Tampa General Hospital after suffering massive head injuries in a wreck May 17 on Big Bend Road at U.S. 41. ...more

June 5, 2008

BRANDON It was a high-school football jamboree, but it was more than that. You knew it as players from Brandon, Bloomingdale, Riverview and East Bay lined up until they made a square on Brandon's football field. You knew it by the silence. It was for a kid who never gave up, a kid who will never grow up. ...more

May 23, 2008

Following in the steps of famous Gens. Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower, East Bay High School's Christopher Collins is headed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. ...more

May 21, 2008

When East Bay High School's commencement takes place May 28, Kristen Zemina will address her classmates and encourage them to make their marks in the world. ...more

May 21, 2008