The family of a woman left brain-damaged after a 2005 wreck with a Pasco County sheriff's deputy's cruiser was awarded a $9.1 million verdict Friday. ...more

March 14, 2009

The family of a woman left brain-damaged after a 2005 wreck with a Pasco County sheriff's deputy's cruiser was awarded a $9.1 million verdict today. ...more

March 13, 2009

Hospital officials in Ohio say a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage. ...more

March 5, 2009

A dog that was trapped under burning debris in a Dunedin house explosion Wednesday is in critical but stable condition today with burns, respiratory trouble and possible internal blast injuries. ...more

February 12, 2009

Adam Ankarlo fought for 10 months with his Marine battalion in Iraq during Operation Phantom Fury, the largest offensive battle since Vietnam, also known as the 2004 Battle for Fallujah. ...more

January 14, 2009

Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and Alzheimer's-like symptoms, but it's impossible to predict how high those risks are, researchers say. ...more

December 5, 2008

Police think 4-year-old Zineah Taylor Johnson was beaten with several objects covered with duct tape -- including an electrical cord, a spatula and possibly a coat hanger — before her grandfather and her grandfather's girlfriend took her lifeless body to Northside Hospital in August. ...more

December 3, 2008

During a recent visit to the veterans hospital in Los Angeles, I ran across a young man fresh out of the Army. He had fought in Afghanistan and was recovering from some of his wounds. He was also homeless and, quite frankly, a little frustrated by what he saw as cumbersome and inefficient layers of bureaucracy between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. ...more

November 27, 2008

This is the moment that has consumed two brothers in the months that followed a horrific automobile accident on a rainy May day in Mississippi. ...more

October 25, 2008

My husband and I decided to vote by absentee ballot this year for the first time. When we opened our ballots, we were shocked to see that on the ballot, it said that it must be filled out with a No. 2 pencil, and yet the secret sleeve we were to put the completed ballot in before mailing said that the ballot had to be filled out in either blue or black ink. Both said that if not done properly, the vote would not count. ...more

October 15, 2008