A medical helicopter carrying a 1-year-old patient crashed and burned in a wooded area of suburban Chicago overnight, killing all four aboard. The aircraft apparently clipped a radio tower, and authorities investigated Thursday whether the tower's lights had been on. ...more

October 17, 2008

The grainy surveillance video shows a black Honda sport utility vehicle driving east through the 78th Street toll plaza on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway at 2:08 p.m. Wednesday. ...more

September 16, 2008

A video, released Monday by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority, answers the question that Florida Highway Patrol investigators have been asking for days: exactly where and how did a wrong-way driver, Cheryl Maria Riemann, 25, end up driving east on the westbound lower deck of the expressway. ...more

September 15, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that killed one person this afternoon. Another victim was airlifted for medical treatment. ...more

September 6, 2008

Authorities hope someone will have information about a fatal crash that shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 4 at Interstate 75 for several hours this morning. ...more

September 1, 2008

Dogs Need Their Space Regarding "More Dogs Down And Out" (Metro, Aug. 7): Thank you for alerting the public to the tragedy of local dogs dumped by their financially stressed owners. Sadly, many of these dogs could have happy, loving homes if not for the shortsighted practices of Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid-Florida, one of the subjects of your article. Their overly strict rules prevent lots of caring, responsible dog owners from adopting. ...more

August 15, 2008

Traffic homicide investigators with the Florida Highway Patrol spent about three hours going over the scene of a fatal crash Thursday morning that involved a Sebring man and a Bonita Springs man who was killed. ...more

August 14, 2008

A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months for a network of charities that ferry patients to medical treatment. ...more

August 13, 2008

Warning signs welcomed by community. ...more

July 29, 2008

The driver in a fatal crash April 18 on Flare Road has been arrested and charged in the death of his girlfriend when the car he was driving west on Flare Road hit a tree at the intersection of Brunns Road. ...more

July 24, 2008