Drug Paraphernalia Or Art Project? SPRING HILL - A Spring Hill woman arrested on drug charges Saturday evening claimed the syringe deputies found in her purse - next to the glass pipe with the white residue - was for an art project, a report states. ...more

November 4, 2008

Some of the Tampa area's largest hospitals are starting to modernize one of the most meaningful and important milestones in a baby's life: getting a birth certificate. ...more

October 9, 2008

Some of the Tampa area's largest hospitals are starting to modernize one of the most meaningful and important milestones in a baby's life: getting a birth certificate. St. Joseph's Women's Hospital and others are starting to use a new portable computer system to generate a birth certificate in the mother's hospital room – dramatically speeding up a vital, but sometimes cumbersome, bureaucratic process. ...more

October 8, 2008

Tampa General Hospital's new 340,000-square-foot Bayshore Pavilion, which features five floors of specialized care, is about to be fully on line, with the Digestive Diagnostic and Treatment Center officially opening for business next week. ...more

September 5, 2008

Tampa General Hospital's new 340,000-square-foot Bayshore Pavilion, which features five floors of specialized care, is about to be fully online with the Digestive Diagnostic and Treatment Center officially opening for business next week. ...more

September 4, 2008

Officials at Tampa General Hospital are reviewing safety protocols and procedures after two psychiatric patients committed suicide in July, a hospital spokesman said. ...more

August 12, 2008

Officials at Tampa General Hospital are reviewing safety protocols and procedures after two psychiatric patients committed suicide in July, a hospital spokesman said. ...more

August 11, 2008

TAMPA A combat veteran wounded during his third tour of Iraq was awarded the Purple Heart on Thursday during a ceremony at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital. ...more

July 17, 2008

LAKELAND A teen has been accused by detectives of molesting a 5-year-old boy at a church's day care center, Lakeland police said. ...more

July 9, 2008

The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008