For all intents and purposes, Cristi Ecks was dead. For nearly three minutes on the afternoon of April 1, the University of South Florida softball pitcher's heart stopped beating. ...more

August 13, 2008

Injuries have forced the Rays to play without just about everyone who could be considered a key player on their team at one point or another this season. ...more

August 11, 2008

Citrus Park Little League manager Joe McGuire has stressed throughout his team's run in the Little League Southeast Regional tournament the importance of scoring early. ...more

August 6, 2008

The Rays reinstated closer Troy Percival from the disabled list this morning. Percival, who had been sidelined since July 2 with a left hamstring strain, replaces Gary Glover on the roster. ...more

July 20, 2008

Pinellas County deputies arrested a man Monday who works at a group home for disabled adults, saying he kicked and beat a resident for not wiping up a table after dinner. ...more

July 15, 2008

Brett Favre finally is speaking for himself: He wants to play but doesn't feel welcome in Green Bay, so he's asking to be released. ...more

July 15, 2008

Washington left fielder Elijah Dukes was carted off the field after injuring his right kneecap in the seventh inning of the Nationals' game at Cincinnati on Saturday night. ...more

July 6, 2008

Florida's revised method of executing condemned inmates was put to its first test Tuesday night in Starke, and it appeared to work perfectly in ending the life of a vicious child killer. ...more

July 3, 2008

City hospital officials promised reforms at a Brooklyn psychiatric ward where surveillance footage captured a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers watched without helping for more than an hour. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - More than a year after being struck by a car, the man who once was one of Hillsborough County's most notorious landlords remains in a poor mental and physical state, according to a new court filing. An attorney for Steven Green is asking a judge for a six-month extension for Green to report to the Bureau of Prisons to begin serving a prison sentence. Green currently is slated to report July 3. ...more

June 26, 2008