A train struck a flatbed truck about 11 a.m. Tuesday, and the driver was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa. Kim Jan Nagelhoute, 51, a driver for Helena Chemical Co., was attempting to pull across the railroad tracks and into the Dade City business's driveway when the crash occurred, said Sgt. Steve Gaskins, spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash caused 17 empty coal cars and two locomotives to derail. Willie Lee Brown, an engineer on the CSX train, was taken to Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City; his condition was not immediately available. Charges are pending against Nagelhoute. ...more

March 4, 2009

The impact was heard a mile away. The driver of a flatbed truck was released from St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa about 5 p.m. after the truck was struck by a train Tuesday morning. ...more

March 4, 2009

The driver of a flatbed truck was in serious condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after the truck was struck by a train this morning. ...more

March 3, 2009

An imaging system that can see through six inches of solid steel and about 42 inches of liquid will scan all vendors and deliveries for Super Bowl XLIII for explosives on game day and the week before, officials said Wednesday. ...more

November 14, 2008

An imaging system that can see through six inches of solid steel and about 42 inches of liquid will scan all vendors and deliveries for Super Bowl XLIII for explosives on game day and the week before, officials said today. ...more

November 12, 2008

Dan Alatorre arrived at Blue Heron Vineyards at the crack of dawn, ripe with anticipation. ...more

October 1, 2008

Dan Alatorre arrived at Blue Heron Vineyards at the crack of dawn, ripe with anticipation. ...more

September 24, 2008

Dan Alatorre arrived at Blue Heron Vineyards at the crack of dawn, ripe with anticipation. ...more

September 17, 2008

A couple of passengers had just stepped off a county bus at the stop north of Denton Avenue when a flatbed truck slammed into the back of the bus about noon Tuesday. ...more

July 9, 2008

TAMPA - With four lettuce-chomping giraffes watching, Navy corpsman Hubert Akers, just back from a six-month tour in Kuwait, rolled up on his 8-year-old son in a reunion fitting for the Serengeti plain, Busch Gardens style. ...more

May 23, 2008