The money the Seven Springs Middle School football team raises each year usually goes for equipment and other expenses. This year, though, the team donated the $1,000 it raised at its October fundraiser to a rival team's coach, whose newborn is battling a heart defect. ...more

December 2, 2007

Henry Hyde, 83, an influential Illinois Republican who managed impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and maintained ties of bipartisan civility during more than three decades in the House of Representatives, died Thursday in Chicago. ...more

November 30, 2007

SEBRING — After spending 15 months of his 12-month deployment in Camp Speicher, Iraq, Army Spc. Brice DuBoice was ready to return home. DuBoice worked with the hospitable and dealt with the hostile while anxiously waiting for news on his 9-month-old son, Ian, who underwent open heart surgery three days after birth. Neither he nor his family expected him to make it home to Sebring from Fort Knox, Ky., in time for Thanksgiving, but he got a short leave and flew down Wednesday. That same day, Ian was able to go home with his mother. ...more

November 26, 2007

For six decades, Sam Sabbagh carried a good luck charm - a parchment he found on the floor of a burned synagogue. ...more

November 11, 2007

Starting with a warm-up of light aerobics and stretching, 15,000 cheering people took to the pavement Saturday for the Tampa Bay Start! Heart Walk. ...more

November 11, 2007

Starting with a warm up of light aerobics and stretching, 15,000 cheering people took to the pavement Saturday for the Tampa Bay Start! Heart Walk. ...more

November 10, 2007

Next month Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital in Tarpon Springs will open a Progressive Care Unit, a half-way house of sorts for cardiac patients. ...more

September 8, 2007

Gene Strickland didn't know he had an irregular heartbeat until he took a bullet a few years ago while on duty as an officer with the Tampa Police Department. ...more

September 8, 2007