Chris TischSenior News Editor, Breaking News and Criminal Justice
I'm the editor of the Times' breaking news and criminal justice team, a group of about a dozen editors and reporters who bring you the Tampa Bay area's most urgent stories. I've lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1995 after growing up in a remote town of 2,500 in northern Wisconsin. After a childhood filled with things like ice fishing, Green Bay Packers worship and saying funny words like "bubbler" and "you betcha," I studied journalism at Northwestern University before landing a job covering the cops beat at the Bradenton Herald. I came to the Times five years later and have been in the thick of a number of big stories, including covering Florida's death penalty, riding out and reporting on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, helping with the Terri Schiavo story and co-authoring a project about the mounting number of fatal prescription drug overdoses in Florida.
/s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/tbt/7b26f703-c20f-4608-ba27-4cc109a41f48.png "Chris Tisch - Senior News Editor, Breaking News and Criminal Justice")
:format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SP67CWSU6ZBTJC6WPVO6W7TYAM.jpg "Image captured of a waterspout seen off Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa on Saturday.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/RRBNGP3BBZDVFCMRPY4VM53QJU.png "Tampa police on Friday said they were investigating the death of a man found with “upper body trauma.”")
![Albert Wyche, de 42 años, fue arrestado por un cargo de entrega de una sustancia controlada después de que siete personas fueran hospitalizadas después de tomar "drogas malas", dijo la policía. [Departamento de Policía de Tampa]](https://www.tampabay.com/resizer//rPXUxWiYSBDNsl8YsGhD9O1fyCc=/fit-in/200x112/filters:fill(333):format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/GW6U6S2U4BDPLHAYYB6KKJ5HJ4.jpg "Albert Wyche, de 42 años, fue arrestado por un cargo de entrega de una sustancia controlada después de que siete personas fueran hospitalizadas después de tomar \"drogas malas\", dijo la policía. [Departamento de Policía de Tampa]")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/3NUNFFFRYEIMVSAZVGPIDYIR3A.png "A 24-year-old man from Zephyrhills was killed Tuesday night when he was hit by a car while he was riding a bicycle, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/D7HHDK3D23RDF3NFBG7QVIYFOE.jpg "Seven people were hospitalized in Tampa Tuesday night after taking \"bad drugs\" that included fentanyl.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/IFRWESGPO5CBBF2BR4D6HQBCQM.jpg "Heavy afternoon rains, much like shown in this September photo taken in Pinellas Park, are possible today and the rest of the week.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/PEHW7CHIIFFYROHPWDNHQBAY54.jpg "A satellite image shows rough weather that is expected to bring heavy rain to north Florida this week.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/IBKXXYFFHNAMFA3BIVH3AQYE2A.jpg "Forecasters are watching a trough of low pressure over the northern Gulf of Mexico that could bring heavy rains to the Florida Panhandle and other parts of the Gulf Coast this week.")
:format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/MXXFX6SPUBGDPAYQUSYSSTMAEU.PNG "Stuart Beck has been arrested on a first-degree murder charge in connection with a Clearwater shooting.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/PUEJVJILHNDFPMMFC4KFE4TPPQ.jpg "Tampa police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in South Tampa early Friday morning.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/4DAKZWA6FFCXLMFIA3AMQDHR6M.jpg "Northbound traffic on Interstate 75 in Pasco County was blocked earlier this morning after this camper overturned.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6BGOVWEKHZE2ZFQSUPRAYLNJX4.png "St. Petersburg police are investigating a late-night crash on Central Avenue in which one person was killed and three people were seriously injured.")
:format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/PBQ6YYPCYNGHLPOWR3DYI6HBW4.PNG "Enrique Toledo, 53, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/XR2JEEGRIFHLLI2UTNHRVLRARY.PNG "A FishHawk Ranch home was destroyed on the Fourth of July and investigators believe fireworks are to blame, Hillsborough Fire Rescue officials said.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/UWYSE4PGNNA3JEPXGOZ3ZBPWPM.PNG "A Pasco County apartment fire Monday killed a child and an adult, Fire-Rescue officials reported.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6UNIMOWIDQI6TJTLIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "The Whole Foods store at the Countryside Mall in Clearwater was closed Thursday morning after a fire in the vent system filled the store with smoke, Clearwater Fire & Rescue reported.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/2CHHGIWQ3NBV7JSAIQ5FZ4BR3M.PNG "Hurricane forecasters are continuing to monitor three areas of rough weather in the tropics on Wednesday.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/5T2ISH25Y5G75COISNC7MECQYQ.png "A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning in a crash on U.S. 19, the Largo Police Department reported.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6SI5OLGETAI6TKTRIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "The entrance to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office administration building at 10750 Ulmerton Road in Largo. A deputy has been fired for falsifying reports covering up that he surfed the web rather than do this job, sheriff's officials said.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/KGUMV5YGAFDT5KUWRBDRTKJESQ.jpg "Out of three patches of rough weather being monitored by the National Hurricane Center, the weather closest to Florida is in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, but it is headed toward Texas.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/YVRD2LS7ZVCLLI4ZIV6QHEKRGE.PNG "Hurricane forecasters are watching three patches of rough weather in the tropics to see if they strengthen into tropical systems.")
