Old Oak Circle News Today

PALM HARBOR — The Pinellas County Medical Examiners Office has identified human remains found in a vehicle that was under water in a local retention pond.

After working a closing shift and going to the bar across the street with coworkers, 34-year-old Robert Helphrey went missing.

The remains of Robert Helphrey, a Pinellas County man who was been reported missing since 2006, have been identified after his car was found in a pond last week.

The Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office positively identified human remains found inside a car submerged in a pond as a man missing for more than 16 years.

A dive and recovery team helped pull a vehicle from a retention pond in Palm Harbor Friday, revealing human bones and possibly the answer to a 16-year missing person cold case. 

The family of a man who had been missing for nearly 17 years now has some closure.

A Winston-Salem man died Friday night after his motorcycle collided with a building on Summit Street near the citys downtown area, authorities said Saturday.

The blaze happened around 11:30 p.m. in the 2100 block of Old Oak Circle in Tyler near the Flint area.