Pasco County staff have finished placing 61,200 baits pellets used to vaccinate raccoons against rabies. ...more

February 11, 2009

Pasco County staff last week finished placing some 61,200 baits for raccoons to eat to vaccinate them against rabies to reduce the threat of the disease spreading to people and their pets. The county has participated in the annual program for about the past seven years, according to Denise Hilton, Pasco's animal services manager. ...more

February 11, 2009

Tom McHale died fighting the wrong opponent. The onetime Tampa Bay Buccaneer, local businessman and father of three died last May battling a drug addiction he thought was responsible for driving him insane. ...more

January 28, 2009

Tom McHale died fighting the wrong opponent. The one-time Tampa Bay Buccaneer, local businessman and father of three died in May battling a drug addiction he thought was responsible for driving him mad. ...more

January 27, 2009

Sen. Edward Kennedy was recovering Monday night after undergoing brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor, a risky and delicate procedure that offers the 76-year-old Democratic icon the best chance of extending his survival. ...more

June 3, 2008

Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance in treating this often fatal problem. ...more

February 23, 2008

A caffeine regimen — the human equivalent of five cups of coffee daily — protected Alzheimer's mice from the memory impairment that they otherwise would have developed. And when caffeine was given to Alzheimer's mice that were already memory-impaired, their memory was restored to the level of normal mice. ...more

December 28, 2007

On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is where workers cut up pigs' heads and then shoot compressed air into the skulls until the brains spill out. ...more

December 8, 2007