WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve says GMAC is the only one of 19 stress-tested banks that needs more capital to withstand a future downturn. ...more

November 9, 2009

Eight Falkenburg Road Jail inmates have been tested for swine flu, but there are no confirmed cases of the illness within the jail, said Col. Jim Previtera of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Twenty-four inmates are in respiratory isolation for an array of reasons, from recent travel to Mexico to flulike symptoms to contact with people confirmed to have the swine flu. ...more

August 4, 2009

Three family members have been indicted on federal charges alleging they used their businesses to bilk Medicare out of more than $5 million. ...more

July 31, 2009

Three family members have been indicted on federal charges alleging they used their businesses to bilk Medicare out of more than $5 million. ...more

July 30, 2009

10,000 Number of former Veterans Affairs patients, some who had colonoscopies as long ago as 2003, advised to get follow-up blood tests for HIV and hepatitis ...more

June 15, 2009

If you were planning to spend Memorial Day at Picnic Island, you might want to consider a change of venue, especially if you wanted to go swimming. ...more

May 23, 2009

Florida health officials said this morning that state laboratories testing samples for swine flu have sent three suspected samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The samples came from cases in Broward, Lee and Orange counties, they said. ...more

April 30, 2009

The opponents of a plan to dump material dredged from the bottom of the Hernando Beach channel onto a county-owned piece of land on Shoal Line Boulevard will get a hearing in front of a judge. ...more

March 5, 2009

Bacteriological test results received by the Hernando County Health Department indicate the water quality at Pine Island Beach is now in the good range. ...more

February 21, 2009

Beach at Pine Island is now safe. ...more

February 20, 2009