A Port Charlotte woman who is nearly eight months pregnant has been charged with possession of oxycodone and drug paraphernalia. ...more

July 10, 2009

Susan Finney (June 11) writes that we should have what she call a constitutional basic freedom right to choose the consumption of raw milk. Raw milk can carry Listeria, a tough little bacterium. It can travel through the nervous system and cause meningitis, can infect the unborn child of a pregnant woman and can kill. In severe infections, fatality rate can be as high as 25 percent. ...more

June 20, 2009

An airman in Alaska has been sentenced to almost 10 years behind bars after being found guilty of trying to force his wife to miscarry by lacing her food with ulcer medication. ...more

May 3, 2009

In reference to Edgar R. Cronin, Mr. Hoyt and Melody Griffins' letters and others with like opinions, I'm sorry not to have responded in a timely manner, but here is my response. I'd like to give you statistics concerning the possible 45 million more human beings who might have been born and are a burden to today's society in the United States, with the economic, medical, social and life situations that cannot even properly take care of those who live here today within our world. ...more

March 17, 2009

I'd been told my chances of having a child were slim to none due old scar tissue. So my reaction was a bit out of the norm when Dr. Poole made his surprising announcement 11 years ago. ...more

March 9, 2009

A 36-year-old Tampa man choked a woman with a television cord, refused to let her leave, held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her and their unborn child Monday, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Kirby Cook at his home at 6:58 p.m. Monday. He was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and domestic battery by strangulation. ...more

February 17, 2009

Ever since Roe vs. Wade was legislated from the bench by Blackmun, Burger, Douglas, Brennan, and Stewart, with White and Rehnquist dissenting, many so-called Christians have willingly given support to their political party's continuous platform regarding abortion. Two years after our Supreme Court approved the murder of innocent babies, the German Supreme Court banned abortions, labeling such atrocities as a return to Nazism. ...more

October 13, 2008

LAKEVILLE, Minn. - The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States." ...more

October 10, 2008

Court documents show the mother of a missing toddler wanted to give her unborn child up for adoption. ...more

August 26, 2008

Melanie Achenbach, a New Port Richey-area amateur photographer recently completed a study of mothers-to-be ...more

July 9, 2008