Three years ago, the Department of Children & Families found many of the same problems at the Tampa Bay Academy that other state regulators found this month: inadequate staffing, abuse complaints and an alleged sexual assault. ...more

December 30, 2008

State officials found that an inadequate and poorly trained staff at the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview led to abuse complaints, patient escapes and at least one alleged sexual assault. Three years ago. ...more

December 29, 2008

Sharon Meyer wants to know what happened to her daughter. The teenager was supposed to get better during her year at Tampa Bay Academy's mental health center. Instead, a child who was disruptive grew more violent and repeatedly escaped from what was supposed to be constant supervision. ...more

December 20, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist announced this morning that he has chosen Judge Ricky Polston of the First District Court of Appeal to sit on the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

October 1, 2008

When Charlie Crist appointed Second District Court of Appeal Judge Charles Canady of Lakeland to the Florida Supreme Court late last month, critics attacked his choice as political and ideological. ...more

September 14, 2008

This response to the Tribune's June 1 editorial was written by Dr. Robert W. Yelverton, chief medical officer of Women's Care Florida; Dr. Madelyn E. Butler, a physician with The Women's Group; and Dr. John S. Curran, president of the Hillsborough County Medical Association. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA - Judge Nelly N. Khouzam was appointed today by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve on the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. ...more

June 3, 2008

TAMPA - A motorcyclist who won a jury verdict for nearly $18 million against the city of Tampa is one step closer to collecting. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA - Surreptitiously videotaping underage girls changing into their swimsuits is not a felony under Florida law, a judge ruled today Thursday. ...more

November 15, 2007

It's normal to feel compassion for people so overcome by chronic pain from health problems that they break laws to obtain large quantities of the medicine they need, then, incredibly, are branded drug traffickers and sentenced to prison for at least 25 years. ...more

September 27, 2007