Rep. Tom Rooney, please reconsider your last opportunity to support reform in the upcoming final House vote. I have a friend who has unbearable back pain and has been given powerful narcotics but no other treatment for it because she is not old enough for Medicare, is unsure of what her work record is and so is not eligible for SSDI (disability,) was helped to get on Medicaid but since it is share of cost she can neither see a doctor in his office nor be admitted to a hospital for any effective length of time. She has a hole in her esophagus and has been told to just "watch it." She can hardly swallow anything and has somehow not qualified for tests for this situation. The only way she can be seen in a medical setting is in the ER where they have to treat her but they count the minutes before they send he back out to bear her pain alone. ...more

November 15, 2009

An amusement park in Southern California says a cable snapped on a roller coaster, sending a 12-year-old boy and a man to hospitals with injuries. ...more

September 18, 2009

A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy suffered minor injuries this morning in a head-on collision at Dover Road near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, deputies say. ...more

January 12, 2009

Seve Ballesteros was in stable condition Wednesday after the 51-year-old golf great had surgery on a brain tumor a day earlier. ...more

October 16, 2008

Four students aboard a school bus involved in a "minor" crash Friday morning were taken to a local hospital as a precaution, Pasco Fire Rescue dispatchers said. ...more

September 20, 2008

Paramedics are on scene this morning of a "minor" crash involving a school bus and another vehicle, a Pasco County Fire Rescue dispatcher said. ...more

September 19, 2008

Ancient columns always show signs of ruin, and so it is with my spinal column. ...more

August 29, 2008

LARGO - A woman talking on a cell phone rammed her sport utility vehicle into the rear of a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus this afternoon that had stopped to pick up and let off passengers, a PSTA spokesman said. ...more

July 7, 2008

NASA has set May 31 for the next space shuttle launch and said that Russia's investigation into last month's rocky landing of its own spacecraft shouldn't interfere. ...more

May 20, 2008

Crossing a finish line is exciting. So is scoring the winning point in a hotly contested sporting match. ...more

February 22, 2008