Abuses of prescription painkillers is a hard pill for state lawmakers to swallow. So-called "pill mills" have transformed much of Florida into "the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market," state Rep. John Legg said in a press release. ...more

October 24, 2009

A group of security workers stand at attention as two black SUVs, each driven by armed guards, pull up to the artists' entrance to the Kodak Theatre. Inside are the Academy Awards' most famous guests. ...more

February 22, 2009

You can't make this stuff up. On Thursday, as armed guards kept the media from a meeting between the board that operates the city's zoo and its about-to-be-canned director, the about-to-be-canned director's wife was charged with animal cruelty for, authorities said, leaving two dogs alone in a car for more than two hours. ...more

December 21, 2008

During his 49 years, he's been proud to be, by turns, a University of South Florida nursing instructor, a disaster relief expert, a physician, a registered nurse, a paramedic, a Navy corpsman and a McDonald's burger-flipper, dreaming of becoming the boss. ...more

July 14, 2008

During his 49 years, he's been proud to be, by turns, a University of South Florida nursing instructor, a disaster relief expert, a physician, a registered nurse, a paramedic, a Navy corpsman and a McDonald's burger-flipper, dreaming of becoming the boss. ...more

July 13, 2008