Every day you make hundreds of decisions. What to wear? What TV show to watch? What to eat for lunch? But what about those hard decisions — like, what kind of care do you want in a medical crisis, and who will speak for you if you are unable? ...more

April 16, 2009

Florida State University trustees voted recently to continue requiring health insurance of their students, even though the university's president wanted to suspend the policy as the economy worsens. ...more

March 3, 2009

Florida State University trustees voted recently to keep requiring health insurance of their students, even though the university's president wanted to suspend the policy as the economy worsens. ...more

March 2, 2009

The issue: Spring Hill Fire Rescue board votes to transfer emergency dispatching to county. Our opinion: Fire commissioners deserve praise for long overdue decision. ...more

March 1, 2009

Shawn Vinson has lost more than 100 pounds through the MediZone diet. ...more

January 29, 2009

A family member's medical emergency forced Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite to leave Washington Monday as the House prepared to debate and vote on President Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package. ...more

January 28, 2009

To borrow a line we once heard attributed to the late Rich Litowchak, a former publisher of this newspaper, "The fact that you've been doing a job 30 years doesn't mean you've been doing that job well." On all the available evidence, that line can't be used to describe Daniel Azzariti's tenure with the New Port Richey Fire Department. ...more

September 20, 2008

A 69-year-old Dunedin woman was found floating face down near Honeymoon Island tonight. ...more

September 4, 2008

TAMPA - The crash last weekend of two medical helicopters in Arizona that killed six people is unlikely to happen here because of all the precautions in place, said an Aeromed manager who oversees the landing and taking off of air ambulances at Tampa General Hospital. ...more

July 2, 2008

NICE, France (AP) -- Angelina Jolie's doctor says her twins may take a few more weeks to arrive. Dr. Michel Sussmann spoke at a brief news conference Wednesday in Nice, where Jolie is hospitalized. Asked when the 33-year-old actress is expected to have her twins, he replied: "I can't give you a date. Let's say the birth will happen in the weeks to come." ...more

July 2, 2008