Health and Human Services Director Jean Rags is confident Hernando County will get a chunk of the federal block grant money earmarked for housing relief, even though the county does not meet certain population parameters. ...more

October 10, 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

OMAHA, Neb. - Ten children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution. ...more

September 25, 2008

Sen. John McCain is running a television ad attacking the spending record of prominent Democrats. This is certainly a remarkable offering from a man who treats Ronald Reagan as a saint. Reagan ran up the largest deficits in history, surpassed only by the Bushes, without a word of apology. ...more

September 12, 2008

A federal agency has approved Tampa General Hospital's plan to improve patient safety in its psychiatric ward, reducing the threat the hospital would lose tens of millions of dollars in Medicare funding. ...more

September 4, 2008

The attorney for the family of one of two people who recently committed suicide at Tampa General Hospital has called on the State Attorney's Office to launch a criminal probe into the matter. ...more

August 26, 2008

An attorney for the estate of a woman who hanged herself at Tampa General Hospital is urging the state attorney's office to pursue manslaughter charges in the case. ...more

August 25, 2008

Conditions at Tampa General Hospital's psychiatric ward are so bad they pose "an immediate and serious threat to the health and safety of patients," according to a federal agency's investigation into two suicides at the hospital. ...more

August 22, 2008

Conditions at Tampa General Hospital's psychiatric unit "pose an immediate and serious threat to the health and safety of patients," according to a federal agency's investigation of two suicides there in July. ...more

August 21, 2008