The Hernando County mosquito control division has announced a sentinel chicken, located west of U.S. 19 and north of The Heather subdivision, has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus – the first case in the county. ...more

November 2, 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

The last time Early Williams saw his 3-year-old neighbor Eddie Gould alive, the boy was hunched over a toy truck pushing it toward the road through their trailer park. ...more

January 22, 2009

Pete Dreydoppel went on trial this morning on a DUI-manslaughter charge in the Feb. 7 death of Eddie Gould, 3. ...more

January 21, 2009

Friends and relatives of the co-owner of a small Holmes Beach motel fear the worst about her disappearance. ...more

November 10, 2008

Ramon Bustamonte III, a 30-year-old St. Petersburg man arrested Wednesday in a February wreck that left a woman dead, had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit, police said. ...more

September 5, 2008

Ramon Bustamonte III, the 30-year-old St. Petersburg man arrested Wednesday in a February wreck that left a woman dead, had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit, police said. ...more

September 4, 2008

The virus that caused the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was so powerful it killed an estimated 50 million people. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that it produced some powerful antibodies against it. ...more

September 3, 2008

New government estimates of the number of Americans who become infected with the AIDS virus each year are 50 percent higher than previously thought, sources said Friday. ...more

December 1, 2007