Curtistine Wilson, a 30-year-old single mother, remembers the day in August when she came home and found the house on fire. ...more

October 4, 2008

Snack time at Avon Park Middle School recently turned into precious little time to save a choking student. ...more

September 26, 2008

Two local Red Cross volunteers are on their way to Texas to help with Hurricane Ike relief efforts. ...more

September 18, 2008

Forty-four members of a Lakeland staffing agency received American Red Cross volunteer training in one day to help with hurricane relief efforts in Texas. ...more

September 17, 2008

Two local Red Cross volunteers are on their way to Texas to help with Hurricane Ike relief efforts. Lynn Skyrms and Kel Bartley just returned from Florida's east coast, where they had been assisting victims of Hurricane Fay. They left again this morning in a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle to deliver hot meals, water and cleaning supplies to neighborhoods devastated by Ike. ...more

September 17, 2008

President Bush got a firsthand look Tuesday at the fury that Hurricane Ike unleashed on the Gulf Coast. He was greeted by a virtual ghost town in Galveston, where Ike made landfall. Bush urged frustrated storm evacuees to keep it that way until local officials say it is safe to return. ...more

September 17, 2008

Nearly 2 million residents of Louisiana evacuated their homes to escape Hurricane Gustav. The Category 2 hurricane missed New Orleans, but left a trail of destruction across Louisiana, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle after making landfall in Cocodrie, La. ...more

September 11, 2008

Reginald Lee Mitchell set an Aug. 29 fire that caused $35,000 in damage to an occupied Tampa home, Tampa Fire Rescue says. ...more

September 9, 2008

Reginald Lee Mitchell set an Aug. 29 fire that caused $35,000 damage to an occupied Tampa home, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. Investigators arrested Mitchell on Sunday afternoon. He was charged with first-degree arson. ...more

September 8, 2008

A fire that started in a kitchen area of 14308 Hensel Lane in Avalon Village Apartments about 12:05 a.m. today displaced several people, according to Hillsborough County Fire Rescue. No one was injured. ...more

September 3, 2008