Authorities say friends of an ill man dumped the 54-year-old from a car and planned to meet him at a hospital, but the man died on the side of a Seminole County road. ...more

September 27, 2009

Educators Lonnie Clark and Val Thomopalos aim to make Central Pasco County a S.A.F.E. place to live. ...more

March 11, 2009

Jingles, a 10-year-old American Eskimo dog, survived a house exploding around him, being buried under a wall of rubble, burns and a swollen brain. ...more

February 23, 2009

Jingles, a 10-year-old American Eskimo dog, survived a house exploding around him, being buried under a wall of rubble, burns and a swollen brain. ...more

February 22, 2009

It took Wayne Tompkins about five minutes to fatally strangle his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

A combination of factors led to September's death of a 46-year-old man who had been stunned three times with a Taser, the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Wednesday. ...more

February 4, 2009

The U.S. Army Reserve soldier who died Sunday in St. Petersburg during a training exercise has been identified as Sgt. 1st Class James Bailey Jr. of Belzoni, Miss., military officials say. ...more

January 15, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death from a virulent staph infection. ...more

January 7, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death. ...more

January 6, 2009

The feelings came back as if it had happened yesterday. My hands and voice shook as I remembered. I was attending a lecture on advance directives offered by Tampa General Hospital through the Community Church College. Thirteen years evaporated as I listened to the lecturer describe planning for the end of life. ...more

December 24, 2008