Fire Station One on Dairy Road will now comply with the city's sprinkler ordinance, thanks to a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

January 15, 2009

Four years ago, when one of her five cancer treatment centers had to close for a month while new equipment was installed, physician Kathryn Kepes, founder and chief executive officer of The Center for Radiation Oncology, started a free patient transport program. ...more

December 17, 2008

Destroying a tumor with radiation poses a number of challenges and risks, especially for a pregnant woman and her fetus. ...more

November 29, 2008

PLANT CITY South Florida Baptist Hospital for the first time has a high-tech therapy for wounds that resist healing. ...more

October 7, 2008

How safe is that salad? Every year, 1 in 4 Americans suffers from food illness, and about 14 percent of those cases involve fresh produce. ...more

August 22, 2008

An American nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years, releasing the bulk of the material in its home port of Guam and at Pearl Harbor, Japanese and U.S. officials said Thursday. ...more

August 8, 2008

TAMPA A Tampa couple are in the running for a $100,000 wedding courtesy of Us Magazine. They are pitted against 19 other couples from across the nation baring their lives to the public in hopes of garnering enough votes to be hitched in style. The contest is online and in living color at www.usmagazine.com/wedding-2008-top-20, and as of this morning Courtney Dempsey and Gary Courtney Jr., have garnered about 90,000 votes. ...more

June 23, 2008

LARGO - Bob Puccinelli, who was a maintenance worker at a nuclear weapons plant, died Wednesday morning of pancreatic and liver cancer. He was 72. ...more

February 13, 2008

Ronald Larsen, the elderly man who was neglected to the point that cancer consumed nearly half his face, has died. ...more

January 22, 2008

The Largo plant produced nuclear weapons during the cold war, and the government promised to pay the medical bills of workers who were sick from radiation and chemical exposure. ...more

January 15, 2008