A 63-year-old man was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning, charged with injuring his 8-year-old step-grandson by putting a coat hanger down his throat. ...more

November 20, 2008

Ten years ago, most of Brian Nussenbaum's oral cancer patients were men older than 60 who used tobacco and drank heavily. ...more

November 15, 2008

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

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital recently. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - Almost a dozen beauty queens, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick little girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital this morning. The queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. Outside, Tampa Fire Rescue firefighters hoisted hospitalized little boys up onto the gleaming red truck. Some yanked at the steering wheel while others, in hospital pajamas and plastic firefighter helmets, climbed on the back. Some were still attached to IVs dragged around behind them. ...more

June 20, 2008

Why is it that when I'm sick I revert to being a child again? When I don't feel well, all I want is for my mama to come and bring me chicken soup and lay her cool hand on my forehead and tell me it's going to be all right. It doesn't matter that I'm a mother myself now and my mother is 80 years old. When I'm sick, in body or in spirit, no one can make it better like she can. I wonder. Do my children feel that way about me? They're adults now. They have lives of their own and "significant others" to comfort and cheer them. Maybe they really don't need me now. ...more

May 24, 2008

It's Still A Theory Regarding "Focus on Science, Not Ideology In Setting Education Standards" (Our Opinion, Dec. 27): ...more

January 2, 2008

Ed Sullivan introduced Americans to the Beatles, but "Help!" was the first time they saw the Fab Four in color. ...more

November 20, 2007