The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the pedestrian who died after he was struck Thursday night by an ambulance side mirror on State Road 52 in Pasco County. ...more

June 21, 2008

TAMPA - An ambulance on its way to Tampa General Hospital on Davis Islands struck a guardrail on the exit ramp to the hospital and was blocking traffic, police said. ...more

June 17, 2008

In addition to the hail up to the size of golf balls that fell in Hardee and DeSoto counties, Wednesday's thunderstorms cost some Wauchula residents their electricity and water. Hardee County Emergency Management said firefighters and an ambulance were called to a mobile home park on Sims Road about 6:15 p.m. after receiving a report people were trapped in a mobile home by a fallen tree. Rescuers found no tree, but a 10-inch limb had dropped on two mobile homes. No one was trapped, and the branch didn't punch through the mobile homes' roofs. ...more

June 12, 2008

MOLINO - An elementary school teacher retiring after a 36-year career died of a heart attack moments after saying goodbye to her final class for the summer. ...more

June 1, 2008

The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was portrayed in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" died Friday at his home in Virginia, having lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted. ...more

May 31, 2008

A 911 dispatcher talked an understandably nervous Sarasota man through the delivery of his son Tuesday morning. ...more

May 28, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A patrol officer responding tonight to a suicide attempt lost control of his marked car, rolled over at least once and struck a telephone pole, police said. Officer Kenneth Pienik was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said. ...more

May 22, 2008