It's New Year's Eve, and there is a dance at the West Tampa Convention Center designed to take partygoers back in time. ...more

December 31, 2008

Nicotine called. In 2005, while at the hospital where her husband, Bill, lay in a coma in the intensive care unit from a ruptured brain aneurysm, Valerie Anne Faulkner finally found a place in the hospital where smoking was allowed. ...more

December 27, 2008

Dominick Ferello incited a mob of first-graders on Monday. It was Ferello's first day back on the job as principal of Explorer K-8 after a six-week break as he recovered from an illness, and Angela Esposito's class was clearly happy to see him. ...more

December 16, 2008

Explorer K-8's principal will return to school Monday after an extended absence due to an illness that left him hospitalized. ...more

December 12, 2008

For some new nurses, it was the fear. They feared putting an intravenous catheter into a baby for the first time. They feared talking to their supervisors. They feared failure. ...more

December 10, 2008

For some new nurses, it was the fear. They feared putting an intravenous catheter into a baby for the first time. They feared talking to their supervisors. They feared failure. ...more

December 9, 2008

Nicotine called. In 2005, while at the hospital where her husband Bill lay in a coma in the intensive care unit from a ruptured brain aneurysm, Valerie Anne Faulkner finally found a place in the hospital where smoking was allowed. ...more

December 3, 2008

There is no shouting here. In the neonatal intensive care unit at Tallahassee Memorial hospital, nurses' voices are restrained even as they rush in with new patients and gently push needles into thread-thin veins. Too much stimulation can overwhelm their tiny charges. With underdeveloped lungs, babies cannot cry out. ...more

November 28, 2008

The trials of two men accused of severely beating a man popularly known as the "The Walker" are set to begin next Wednesday. ...more

November 26, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - When Scott Paton's son, Nick, was born three and a half years ago, everything seemed perfect. The fairy tale almost ended, however, when the newborn had trouble breathing. A breathing problem put him in the Intensive Care Unit, where doctors scrambled to diagnose and fix the problem. ...more

November 16, 2008