Most of what legislators heard Tuesday was a chorus of desperate pleas from community groups to keep their state funding intact. ...more

December 31, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY – Authorities recently found two young girls in an apartment filled with drugs and loaded guns and two unconscious adults. ...more

November 6, 2008

Jerry Lewis raised a record $65 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in his annual Labor Day telethon, a benefit that also made a pitch for those inconvenienced by Hurricane Gustav. ...more

September 2, 2008

Carolyn Aviles won't call it an accident. A pickup hit her side of the car as she was pulling into the street from a parking lot. A mishap, she said. That's all. ...more

August 3, 2008

Carolyn Aviles sums up her addicted son's fatal overdose this way: "I blame the doctors. I blame the system. I blame — I should blame him, but I don't. You can't blame a person that is out of control." ...more

August 1, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - Pasco deputies are investigating the suspicious deaths of two people found dead in a home Thursday night. Zephyrhills Fire Rescue called the Pasco Sheriff's Office just before 9:30 p.m., when the bodies of a 47-year-old woman and 38-year-old man were found in the bathroom at their home at 38749 Minnesota Ave. ...more

May 30, 2008

Formerly a drug used only to treat heroin addiction, methadone has become more popular in recent years to treat pain. ...more

February 9, 2008

TAMPA – Formerly a drug used only to treat heroin addiction, methadone is becoming more popular in recent years to treat pain. As the use of the drug increases, so too do the deaths at an "alarming rate," according the National Drug Intelligence Center. Florida has become one of the leading states for methadone overdose deaths, according to the Center for Disease Control. ...more

February 8, 2008

It has been six years since someone shot and killed Felicia Hines, the 24-year-old victim in a homicide that remains unsolved. ...more

January 13, 2008

A nine-year ban on city funding for needle-exchange programs in the District of Columbia has been lifted, a move city officials say is key to reducing the soaring rate of AIDS and HIV infections in the nation's capital. ...more

December 28, 2007