Three children and two adults were transported to hospitals this morning after the driver of a Mustang ran a stop sign and crashed into a van carrying five people in Polk County. ...more

June 8, 2008

With a brace around her right leg and a cast on her left arm, Tampa police Officer Tara Edwards hoisted herself out of a wheelchair Thursday to hug two men she called "gentleman angels." ...more

May 23, 2008

TAMPA With a brace around her right leg and a cast on her left arm, Tampa police Officer Tara Edwards hoisted herself out of a wheelchair Thursday to hug two men she called "gentleman angels." It was the first time Edwards had seen motorists Archie Thomas and Douglas Rand since May 5, when police said they pulled her from a burning patrol car after a head-on collision with an intoxicated driver. ...more

May 22, 2008

Pfizer Inc.'s once promising anti-smoking drug Chantix received another blow Wednesday after a nonprofit group's report about serious physical side effects prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ban the drug's use by pilots and air traffic controllers. ...more

May 22, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG Pinellas County emergency personnel are on the scene of a crash involving an overturned refrigerated semi-truck carrying ice cream in the eastbound lanes of Gandy Boulevard near the Gandy Bridge. ...more

May 10, 2008

Dunedin has to find a new name for its baseball stadium. Cable TV provider Knology will give up naming rights at the end of the year. ...more

February 11, 2008

Maureen Keel was a people person. It showed in her career, which ranged from tending to the dying in hospices to counseling addicts and the mentally ill. ...more

February 7, 2008

Maureen Keel was a people person. It showed in her career, which ranged from tending to the dying in hospices to counseling addicts and the mentally ill. ...more

February 6, 2008

Polk County sheriff's Deputy Paul Buoniconti didn't think the man could survive. Amid the fiery Interstate 4 pileup, the victim's car was pinned beneath a tractor-trailer, which in turn was wedged between two other vehicles. ...more

January 15, 2008

With a homicide investigation still under way - standard practice in severe traffic accidents - and an unusual set of circumstances contributing to the Interstate 4 pileup, auto insurers are preparing for significant challenges settling the cases of those involved in the wrecks. ...more

January 13, 2008