For the second time since August, the Florida Department of Health has detected elevated levels of a cancer-causing chemical inside a home at the Brandywine Apartments near the Raytheon defense plant in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 10, 2008

What's in a name? Politics, if you ask proud new father Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton, Tenn. Some people distribute bumper stickers, some post campaign signs and others donate cash to support their favorite candidates. Ciptak had another idea – sparked by the birth Friday of his baby girl. ...more

October 16, 2008

Nebraska officials say another teenager from outside the state has been left at an Omaha hospital under the state's safe haven law. ...more

October 13, 2008

More than a dozen children have been abandoned under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law, which allows children as old as 18 to be abandoned without fear of prosecution. But the case of a 14-year-old girl from Iowa has stoked fears of an influx of unwanted out-of-state children. ...more

October 9, 2008

Nine siblings are among 11 children as old as 17 who were left at Omaha hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique and new safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon babies and teenagers alike at hospitals without fear of prosecution. ...more

September 26, 2008

Oscar Silva lives at BrandyWine apartments in St. Petersburg just a few hundred feet from the Raytheon defense plant. Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health sent a letter to Silva telling him the indoor air in his apartment has a cancer-causing level of a chemical called 1,2, Dichloroethane, also known as DCA, one of the chemicals showing up in the Raytheon groundwater plume that has been spreading under the neighborhoods since 1999. ...more

September 18, 2008

The Florida Department of Health says air tests have uncovered one of the same chemicals found in the Raytheon groundwater pollution plume in the indoor air of five apartments and condominiums near the company's defense plant at 1501 72nd St. N. in St. Petersburg. ...more

September 17, 2008

Lana Gahagan, left, shows Mireille Hatchell how to use walking poles during the STEPtember event Saturday at the 1-mile Hardy Trail in Dade City. Gahagan sells the poles from her store, Happy 2 B Walking, in Brooksville. The event, to encourage better health through walking, was sponsored by the Sunrise Rotary Dade City and the Florida Department of Health in Pasco County. ...more

September 17, 2008

Authorities are seeking a Weeki Wachee man whom they say passed himself off as a pediatrician. ...more

September 16, 2008

Both state and county health departments are asking a judge to shut down a Weeki Wachee restaurant for sanitary reasons. ...more

September 5, 2008