The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

Authorities arrested a man they say broke into a Palm Harbor home early Friday and raped a 57-year-old woman. ...more

July 26, 2008

Authorities are looking for a man they say broke into a Palm Harbor home early today and violently raped a 57-year-old woman. The suspect has been identified as Christopher Lee Granado, 40, of 706 Sparrow Ave., Palm Harbor, Pinellas sheriff's Sgt. Jim Bordner said. ...more

July 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Attempted armed robberies of two different cabbies this morning left one with a bullet wound, police said. ...more

July 10, 2008

A 55-year-old woman who was brutally attacked by an intruder at her home at Whitehurst Mobile Home Park was recovering last week at South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City police said. ...more

July 9, 2008

A personal watercraft and a boat collided off the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Clearwater this afternoon, sending one person to the hospital, authorities said. ...more

July 5, 2008

CLEARWATER - A SunStar paramedic was arrested Wednesday, accused of molesting a patient in an ambulance on its way to a hospital, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 2, 2008

A 55-year-old woman who was brutally attacked by an intruder at her home at Whitehurst Mobile Home Park was recovering at South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City police said. ...more

July 2, 2008

A multiple-vehicle wreck that followed intense rain Tuesday afternoon sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries. No details were available about the accident, which Zephyrhills police were investigating. ...more

July 2, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After two young men were shot in a car Sunday night, police spent the better part of the evening trying to track down the car of the men who wounded them, initiating two pursuits. ...more

June 23, 2008