State investigators ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview after finding the academy failed to protect its residents and staff from "known and obvious dangerous behaviors." ...more

December 18, 2008

State investigators have found "substandard conditions" at the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview and ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the academy's residential treatment program. ...more

December 17, 2008

Democratic lawmakers want to raise the cigarette tax, and some Republicans are warming to the idea. Gov. Charlie Crist says he hasn't. ...more

December 11, 2008

Hours before his arrest on rape charges Thursday, Thomas Kelly Bolduc told his mother over the phone that police were on the psychiatric ward of St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was being treated. "Somebody got raped," his mother, Carol Wood, recalled him saying. ...more

December 6, 2008

I am writing in response to the editorial published by this newspaper Oct. 27 regarding the Medicaid Reform plan. It is important that certain points you raised are answered and clarified. ...more

December 6, 2008

The state Agency for Health Care Administration is investigating an incident at St. Joseph's Hospital this week in which police accused a 39-year-old homeless man being treated in the psychiatric ward of raping a female psychiatric patient. ...more

December 6, 2008

Police have arrested a 39-year-old homeless man they say raped a woman in a bathroom in the psychiatric ward of St. Joseph's Hospital on Thursday afternoon. ...more

December 5, 2008

First they boarded the Mayflower. Then they had to learn to grow vegetables, thatch roofs, fish and weave. ...more

November 26, 2008

State officials are taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home here, maintaining it does not meet various standards of care. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has not issued a deadline for Long Term Care of St. Petersburg to close. But the agency has ordered the nursing home to begin evaluating patients at the facility, at 3479 54th Ave. N., to determine types of facilities suitable for their placement. ...more

November 25, 2008

County officials gave a thumbs-up Thursday to the first stage of an 80-bed hospital campus in the heart of Wesley Chapel. ...more

November 21, 2008