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DADE CITY - Emergency crews are working to contain oil spilling from an overturned tanker truck in a rural area outside Dade City. ...more
July 9, 2008
A woman who defied medical odds and spent nearly 60 years in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said. ...more
May 29, 2008
Severe thunderstorms packing large hail and possible tornadoes rumbled across the northern Midwest on Sunday, killing at least one person and damaging dozens of homes in this St. Paul suburb. ...more
May 26, 2008
PORT RICHEY - Fire trucks blocking U.S. 19 in both directions north of Jasmine Boulevard have just been moved after emergency crews were able to stop a natural gas leak coming from the Congo River miniature golf course construction site. ...more
May 6, 2008
Firefighters on Thursday finally doused the last flames of a deadly sugar refinery blast, a week after the refinery ignited. ...more
February 15, 2008
PINELLAS PARK - Rescue crews pulled a construction worker out of a 15-foot trench this morning after a bucket that had been removed from a back hoe fell on his feet, fire officials said. ...more
January 24, 2008
Polk County sheriff's Deputy Paul Buoniconti didn't think the man could survive. Amid the fiery Interstate 4 pileup, the victim's car was pinned beneath a tractor-trailer, which in turn was wedged between two other vehicles. ...more
January 15, 2008
BARTOW - Of all the personal stories that have emerged from the massive pileup in Polk County last week, perhaps none is more compelling that the one told by Deputy Paul Buoniconti, a Marine combat veteran who drew from his wartime experience to do what he thought was right. ...more
January 14, 2008
POLK CITY - Smoke from a bush fire mixed with early morning fog was blamed for a 50-vehicle pileup in Polk County early this morning that Sheriff Grady Judd called "the worst you've ever seen." ...more
January 9, 2008
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