While most Highlands County residents are busy this Christmas morning opening presents or getting ready to go to grandmother's house, some are heading to work - if they're not already there. ...more

December 25, 2008

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital recently. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

July 2, 2008

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital last week. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

June 28, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - A $49 million expansion project will nearly double the size of the Morton Plant North Bay Hospital campus, with construction starting in earnest by the end of June. The 122-bed hospital at 6600 Madison St. has gone through several transformations since it opened in 1965, as the county-owned West Pasco Hospital. Nothing as extensive as the latest metamorphosis, however, has ever taken place at the hospital, administrators indicate. ...more

June 21, 2008

TAMPA - Almost a dozen beauty queens, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick little girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital this morning. The queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. Outside, Tampa Fire Rescue firefighters hoisted hospitalized little boys up onto the gleaming red truck. Some yanked at the steering wheel while others, in hospital pajamas and plastic firefighter helmets, climbed on the back. Some were still attached to IVs dragged around behind them. ...more

June 20, 2008