This week you told me about your experiences in waiting rooms at Tampa Bay area hospitals in response to a column about a personal experience with an 87-year-old woman. You wrote me about what I think is every hospital in the region, from Sebring to Ocala. ...more

February 10, 2009

A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy suffered minor injuries this morning in a head-on collision at Dover Road near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, deputies say. ...more

January 12, 2009

Shane Allen has a personality that instantly captivates people. That's what the organizer of an upcoming fundraiser says about the 14-year-old Dade City resident who has endured six operations in less than a year. ...more

September 19, 2008

It's a dreaded disease. The fourth-highest cause of cancer deaths in the United States, it's usually portrayed as an unstoppable, incurable killer. It has struck some high-profile figures: Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with it. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti and former Ronald Reagan aide Michael Deaver died of it. So, too, on July 25, did Randy Pausch, the former Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose "last lecture" before a university audience became a YouTube sensation and a best-selling book. ...more

August 11, 2008

TAMPA - A 7-year-old girl fell from a second story balcony as she leaned over to talk to her sister, who was below on a sidewalk, Hillsborough County officials said. ...more

December 12, 2007

Today, more people are seeking alternative treatments that will help them feel better overall or improve their quality of life. Certainly, many product manufacturers have latched onto this potential market, offering an abundance of health-enhancing products and services on the Internet, in health food stores and alternative medicine settings. ...more

November 1, 2007