If all goes as planned, the two suspects accused of beating a popular figure known as "The Walker" will stand trial next week. ...more

February 6, 2009

"Oh, it's sore, but not too bad." Some people are like that. I had driven my mom down to visit someone in the intensive care unit at Tampa General Hospital, and she had taken off her jacket and was trying to put on the required gown mask and gloves. That's when I noticed one arm was swollen so much she looked like Popeye. ...more

February 6, 2009

Miss America made her first visit this morning as the official goodwill ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network, an organization that raises millions each year for hospitals across the country. And she did so at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. "This is my very, very first day on the job," said Katie Stam, 22, who was Miss Indiana before she was crowned Miss America on Jan. 24. "I've been so excited and so anxious to start this work." ...more

February 3, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death from a virulent staph infection. ...more

January 7, 2009

A widow filed court papers last week that blame local health care providers for her husband's death. ...more

January 6, 2009

A 34-year-old mother remains in critical condition tonight at a Lakeland hospital, a day after her 6-month-old daughter was killed when their car was hit by a truck that ran a red light on U.S. 27 in Polk County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

January 5, 2009

It's New Year's Eve, and there is a dance at the West Tampa Convention Center designed to take partygoers back in time. ...more

December 31, 2008

Nicotine called. In 2005, while at the hospital where her husband, Bill, lay in a coma in the intensive care unit from a ruptured brain aneurysm, Valerie Anne Faulkner finally found a place in the hospital where smoking was allowed. ...more

December 27, 2008

Dominick Ferello incited a mob of first-graders on Monday. It was Ferello's first day back on the job as principal of Explorer K-8 after a six-week break as he recovered from an illness, and Angela Esposito's class was clearly happy to see him. ...more

December 16, 2008

Explorer K-8's principal will return to school Monday after an extended absence due to an illness that left him hospitalized. ...more

December 12, 2008