Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. ...more

November 19, 2008

- Two teenagers have been charged with the theft of $27,000 in jewelry they reportedly said they later traded for drugs. ...more

November 15, 2008

A Summerfield Crossings Elementary School teacher has been charged with possession and delivery of heroin and crack cocaine, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 14, 2008

Italy's highest court ruled Thursday in favor of a man's request to disconnect his daughter's feeding tube and allow her to die after 16 years in a vegetative state. ...more

November 14, 2008

A man went to the emergency room Wednesday after a glass pipe commonly used for smoking drugs broke inside his rectum on the way to jail, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 14, 2008

A Temple Terrace woman filled several prescriptions for Oxycodone and a muscle relaxer by not telling doctors that she had received prior prescriptions for the drugs, Temple Terrace police say. Police arrested Vanessa Kunkle, 31, of Dade City, at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. ...more

November 5, 2008

A judge has set an April trial date for John A. "Junior" Gotti. ...more

November 3, 2008

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana. ...more

October 25, 2008

Pasco County deputies and detectives, aided by a drug-sniffing dog, found 85 pounds of marijuana in a car that was stopped because of an improperly attached license plate, the sheriff's office reported today. The driver, Jose-Juan Carlos Castro-Ramirez, 29, of Lacoochee, was arrested on a charge of trafficking marijuana. He is being held in the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $50,000. Castro-Ramirez was driving a 1997 Saturn near Old Lakeland Highway and Stewart Road south of Dade City when he was pulled over at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday by the sheriff's office's Street Tactical Operations and Patrol, a report said. ...more

October 23, 2008

Authorities say a Spring Hill man raped a 17-year-old girl while she was incapacitated by prescription painkillers. ...more

October 23, 2008