A Baltimore woman said when she ordered an iced tea at a local McDonald's restaurant last year, employees gave her a cup containing a cleaning chemical. Caryl Jones has filed a $100,000 lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court. ...more

February 4, 2009

Debra Saunders had an opinion in Highlands Today on Jan. 30, about the use of medical marijuana, but took it to a higher level. I have in my opinion not seen an article worthy of print from Saunders to date! She did, however, get one comment right, (some doctors) give "THC" properties. ...more

February 4, 2009

"The Leisure Seeker," by Michael Zadoorian (William Morrow. $25) ...more

February 1, 2009

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. ...more

January 31, 2009

WHITTIER, Calif. - The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said. ...more

January 30, 2009

When post player Janelle Mills suffered a broken left wrist in early December, Wesley Chapel lost one of its best players and its best post player, averaging double figures in points and rebounds. ...more

January 22, 2009

He blamed his dog, but authorities and physicians didn't buy it. John Joseph MacCarelli III faces a charge of felony child abuse, accused of beating an infant he was watching while the boy's father worked. ...more

January 14, 2009

He blamed his dog but authorities and physicians didn't buy it. Now, John Joseph MacCarelli III faces a charge of felony child abuse, accused of beating an infant he was watching while the boy's father worked. After the 3-month-old's father picked him up from MacCarelli's home early Sunday morning and tried to wake him up at home for a feeding, he noticed the boy was bruised and bleeding, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. ...more

January 13, 2009

A private funeral service is set to be held in Ocala for John Travolta's teenage son. ...more

January 8, 2009

The Hillsborough County Health Department has learned that a person traveling through the area from the United Kingdom has tested positive for measles. ...more

December 19, 2008