Each Mother's Day, Nettie Smith is showered with cards and letters. With 15 grown children, her house is filled with greeting cards, flowers and family on any given holiday, but Mother's Day brings an avalanche of affection. ...more

May 10, 2008

NORTH PORT — On Monday, Detective Lenny Hills received a call from a woman he had not seen in weeks. She said, "I died the other day at the school, and you brought be back." ...more

May 7, 2008

A Meadow Pointe woman has been selected as a semifinalist in the America's Favorite Mom contest and will appear on NBC's "Today" show on Friday. ...more

May 5, 2008

The remarkable thing was that he was still breathing. Inside the pitch black and the smoke, cars were crashing into each other all around him. His own Mazda Protege was wrinkled up like a squeezebox into the back of a Geo Tracker. But Eric Rannebarger was alive and awake. ...more

February 17, 2008

POLK CITY - The remarkable thing was that he was still breathing. Inside the pitch black and the smoke, cars were crashing into each other all around him. His own Mazda Protégé was wrinkled up like a squeezebox into the back of a Geo Tracker. But Eric Rannebarger was alive and awake. ...more

February 16, 2008

John M. Angelini finally quit smoking in 1999, after triple bypass surgery and, 20 years earlier, a major heart attack. ...more

February 12, 2008

There's no one stereotype to describe a woman with heart disease. It affects women of all ages, races, sizes and shapes. ...more

February 8, 2008

If you have heart disease and you are having or want to have sex, questions and anxieties almost always arise. Reduced sexual desire and avoidance of sexual activity are the most common problems encountered by heart patients. These problems can be compounded by drug therapy, depression and fear by the patient — or his or her partner — that sex will bring on a heart attack, rhythm disturbance or other cardiac abnormality. ...more

February 8, 2008