With donors tightening their purse strings and investments hurting, the local chapter of the American Red Cross has laid off 22 employees, almost half its staff. ...more

December 14, 2008

With donors tightening their purse strings and investments hurting, the local chapter of the American Red Cross has laid off 22 employees, almost half its staff. ...more

December 13, 2008

Volunteers and students will canvas parts of St. Petersburg and Temple Terrace on Saturday as part of an American Red Cross fire safety campaign. The agency's Tampa Bay chapter is sending volunteers to certain neighborhoods in St. Petersburg to hand out fire-prevention information. At the same time, a student group from Florida College will go to apartment complexes north of the University of South Florida's Temple Terrace campus to alert renters of the potential fire dangers in their homes. ...more

October 23, 2008

Curtistine Wilson, a 30-year-old single mother, remembers the day in August when she came home and found the house on fire. ...more

October 4, 2008

Don't forget to pack compassion in that hurricane survival kit, American Red Cross officials say. ...more

July 7, 2008