Convicted rapist Jerrod Pass faces three more life terms after being found guilty Friday in another sexual assault. ...more

November 7, 2009

A 50-year-old man is accused of beating his 78-year-old mother with two lamps. ...more

November 5, 2009

ORANGE PARK (AP) — Mourners said farewell today to a 7-year-old Florida girl whose body was found in a Georgia landfill after she vanished on her way home from school, and they honored her favorite color by releasing hundreds of purple balloons into the sky. ...more

October 27, 2009

Q. My 91 year old mother is a survivor of the 1918-1919 pandemic. As long as she can remember, she has never had another flu since. Nor have I contacted a flu to the best of my knowledge. Is it possible for the children of the pandemic survivors to have built up an immunity to flu viruses? ...more

October 27, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 25, 2009

Defendant is suffering from an array of illnesses, attorney says ...more

October 23, 2009

Virgin Group's billionaire chairman Richard Branson says he hopes to have a spaceship ready in time to take his 92-year-old father and 89-year-old mother into space with him. ...more

July 28, 2009

A sequel has been greenlit for Matt Giraud on "American Idol." ...more

April 16, 2009

A Malawian judge held a closed-door hearing Monday on Madonna's application to adopt a second child from this southern African nation but delayed ruling on the matter until Friday, a court official said. ...more

March 30, 2009

A Pinellas County deputy answering a complaint about puppies digging under a neighbor's fence was bitten by the dog's mother Wednesday evening. ...more

March 26, 2009