The Hillsborough House of Hope will christen its second home today, a residence for women who graduate from its program for those who have been incarcerated, have substance abuse problems or both. ...more

June 23, 2009

When about 60 customers on Amanda Turner's Spring Hill mail route complained that their mail had been tampered with and items stolen, the Postal Inspection Service did a test. ...more

February 18, 2009

A former physician who helped create a business that illegally sold $85 million worth of pain medicine over the Internet was sentenced today to four years and three months in federal prison. ...more

January 29, 2009

A 20-year-old Titusville man was sentenced to four years in prison today after authorities said he sexually assaulted his grandparents' Yorkshire terrier in Clearwater. ...more

November 25, 2008

"I think Sean might be dead," the girlfriend said. Mike and Deb Gilbert were teaching a class at Grace Family Church in Lutz when they got the phone call in late July a year ago. Sean was their youngest child, 18 years old, beautiful and troubled. ...more

August 16, 2008

Next week, a group of Pasco government, business and nonprofit leaders are slated to meet, at the invitation of state Sen. Mike Fasano. The New Port Richey Republican wants to talk about the homeless problem in the county. According to Fasano, the county could get its hands on $1 million in grant money - $850,000 from the federal government and $150,000 from that state - if it had a plan for combating homelessness. ...more

June 18, 2008

WESLEY CHAPEL - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Tom McHale took an anti-anxiety drug and used cocaine the night before he died, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

May 28, 2008

Tampa Bay LF Carl Crawford and Texas Rangers OF Josh Hamilton are forever linked in Rays history as the franchise's top two picks in the 1999 draft. ...more

May 26, 2008

Today, the Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS) at USF's Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute is joining the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) initiative across the United States to participate in National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day: Thriving in the Community. ...more

May 8, 2008

SEBRING — In the living room, there's a couch, but no chairs, no coffee table, not even a painting on the wall. Visitors sit at the kitchen table. In the bedrooms, there are two bunk bed mattresses, but no bed frame. And nothing else. Paul isn't a minimalist, he was homeless last week. Until two weeks ago, Paul, who didn't want to give his last name, was living in a domestic violence shelter with his children, and was one of 15 Highlands County residents given a place to live by the Agency for Community Treatment Services Inc. "We need a homeless shelter in Highlands County, bad," said Terri McClelland, the local ACTS housing case manager, who helps the homeless. ...more

February 7, 2008