Prescription drugs now kill more Floridians than heroin or cocaine, yet the state does not monitor the prescribing and dispensing of deadly painkillers, such as oxycodone. ...more

January 6, 2009 |

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 |

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 |

Three times more Floridians died from prescription pill abuse last year than from a fatal overdose of an illegal drug. ...more

June 22, 2008 |

Three times more Floridians died from prescription pill abuse last year than from a fatal overdose of an illegal drug. ...more

June 21, 2008 |

A man accused of offering a woman money so he could have sex with her two young children cut off his electronic ankle bracelet Sunday and disappeared, his attorney said. ...more

June 10, 2008 |

TAMPA - A man accused of offering a woman money so he could have sex with her two young children cut off his electronic ankle bracelet Sunday and disappeared, his attorney said. ...more

June 9, 2008 |

County health officials on Wednesday discouraged swimming at three west Pasco beaches because of high levels of bacteria that can make people sick. ...more

September 27, 2007 |

County health officials on Wednesday discouraged swimming at three west Pasco County beaches because of high levels of bacteria that can make people sick. ...more

September 26, 2007 |