The number of Florida counties with probable cases of swine flu is growing. ...more

May 3, 2009

The number of Florida counties with probable cases of swine flu is growing. ...more

May 2, 2009

Joseph Nordon, the owner of Boulevard Beef & Ale restaurant on Grand Boulevard, was hospitalized early today at Tampa General Hospital. He was listed in serious condition. ...more

April 4, 2009

A New Port Richey man was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping and threatening to shoot to death the teen he blamed for a botched transaction, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. Keith R. Stokes, 45, was arrested on charges of armed kidnapping and aggravated battery with a firearm. Mary Taylor, 19, told authorities she lives with Stokes, his wife and three children at their residence, 6753 Temple Ave., New Port Richey, said he sells drugs from the house and is a member of the Insane Gangster Disciples street gang. ...more

March 11, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The list of transgressions is long and, to school board members, unsettling. ...more

March 8, 2009

A final determination of death for an Ocala youth who died at the Avon Park Youth Academy is pending a toxicology report. ...more

February 9, 2009

An Ocala youth died Monday night following his collapse at the Avon Park Youth Academy Juvenile Detention Facility. ...more

January 27, 2009

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5 percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population gets the flu each year. Of those, about 200,000 people require hospitalization and 36,000 ultimately die. But imagine if, in addition to the stresses of cold and flu season, American health providers were annually confronted with widespread outbreaks of malaria or a host of other diseases that could spread into the United States due to global warming. ...more

January 3, 2009

The first time he was attacked, Grigori Komissarchuk had gone to Home Depot to buy a fan. ...more

November 5, 2008

The trial of a man accused of hiring people to attack his in-laws is the story of "the American dream unfortunately turning into a family tragedy," a federal prosecutor said this morning. ...more

November 4, 2008