Nick Barnett was devastated when he heard about the traffic deaths of two close friends this month. He left work to spend a few hours with their families. Then he went to the tattoo parlor. Barnett, an 18-year-old Bloomingdale High graduate, became part of a growing number of young people who are memorializing lost friends and family in permanent body ink. Teens and young adults mostly are the ones doing this, tattoo artists say. ...more

August 28, 2008

CLAIR-MEL CITY - Bobby Triplett, pastor of the newly formed Element Church, has a clear vision for what he and other members hope to accomplish. ...more

August 23, 2008

Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were caused not by the virus alone but by common bacterial infections that overwhelmed victims' weakened immune systems, according to two new studies that could change the strategy for the next pandemic. ...more

August 18, 2008

Glad To See Him Go Regarding "The Angel of Escape" (Nation/World, July 31): ...more

August 6, 2008

What has come to be known in east Orlando as a hot spot for college students is opening its second establishment near the University of South Florida. ...more

July 30, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - What has come to be known in east Orlando as a hot spot for college students is opening its second establishment near the University of South Florida. Scoop Bar & Grill will replace the former Whistle Junction at 5105 E. Fowler Ave. The opening is expected in late August or early September. ...more

July 25, 2008

ILLINOIS - Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. ...more

July 20, 2008

Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon whom they were marketing them to - lower levels for young smokers who preferred the milder brands and higher levels to "lock in lifelong adult smokers," researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health concluded. ...more

July 17, 2008

Increasing numbers of younger women continue to be diagnosed with the most dangerous form of skin cancer even as the rate of new cases has leveled off in younger men, federal health officials reported Thursday. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - One minute Catarina Felix was at a stop sign in Fort Myers on July 4. Seconds later, the back seat of her car was filled with smoke, fire and screams from her two toddlers. ...more

July 9, 2008