In today's Hernando Today health section ...more

June 17, 2009

Lakeland police are investigating whether a 4-year-old girl was molested while playing at a public park. The girl was playing inside a tube slide with an older child Friday at Common Ground Park, 1000 E. Edgewood Drive in Lakeland, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. When she emerged from the slide, her shorts were pulled down and her underwear was on backward, Gillen said. ...more

June 15, 2009

Tampa General Hospital is offering free school physicals and immunizations for children entering the Florida school system for the first time from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The examinations will be conducted at HealthPark, 5802 N. 30th St. ...more

June 15, 2009

Friends of 17-year-old Dustin Sean White gathered Sunday afternoon around the cordoned-off clubhouse parking lot where the teen was shot and killed early Sunday morning. ...more

June 15, 2009

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June 14, 2009

Queen Latifah has revealed a traumatic chapter of her personal life: The singer-actress was sexually abused as a child. ...more

June 10, 2009

The comments were similar from parents and family members. Walking toward the Florida State Fairgrounds or the University of South Florida's Sun Dome, they spoke with pride of their son's achievements, their daughter being the first in the family to graduate from high school, or the relief of having survived raising a teenager. They carried flowers and cameras while nervous graduates fidgeted with the zippers on their gowns. ...more

June 10, 2009

Children caught in the middle of nasty divorces soon may have legal advocates to look after their interests. ...more

June 3, 2009

For 49 years, retiring Gorrie Elementary School teacher Lori Weiss has taught hundreds of students to read and to jump rope. On Thursday there will be a reception at the school in Weiss' honor. ...more

May 27, 2009

SOUTH TAMPA The Academy of the Holy Names recently inducted 18 eighth-grade boys into its Holy Names Association. ...more

May 27, 2009