People in sprawl belts are more likely to face delays when they need an ambulance, a University of Virginia researcher has found. ...more

January 1, 2010

An Avon Park motorcyclist has died after running into the back end of a school bus early Thursday morning. ...more

October 29, 2009

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Lawyers for an ambulance driver and a former politician accused of trying to extort millions from John Travolta urged jurors today to clear their clients, accusing the actor's attorneys of setting them up. ...more

October 20, 2009

A Sebring teenager was injured Tuesday morning after he ran his 2007 Ford Mustang into the back of a garbage truck. ...more

September 29, 2009

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

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is scheduled to unveil a new radio system this morning that allows first responders across the county to communicate with each other. The system includes the sheriff's office, the Tampa Police Department, the University of South Florida Police Department and the school district's security force. The sheriff's office and Tampa police began using the system Monday. ...more

July 23, 2009

A woman was seriously hurt tonight after a fire damaged her home at 3920 W. Arch St., authorities say. ...more

March 4, 2009

Firefighters from several departments are responding to a brush fire at U.S. 41 and Sante Fe Road, near a shipping port. ...more

February 9, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Tijuana Flats opened its newest Tampa Bay area location Monday at Willow Bend Shopping Center. ...more

January 23, 2009

Emergency responders called this afternoon to a possible domestic disturbance upgraded the incident to a structure fire after the woman living at the home called 911 and told dispatchers her boyfriend was trying to set the house ablaze, authorities say. ...more

December 28, 2008