Gracyn DenBesten sat in her hospital bed and held out her hands. Her doctors placed an enlarged, discolored-looking blob in her palm. ...more

July 4, 2009

Street flooding in front of Progress Village Middle Magnet School has rerouted some summer programs to another school. ...more

July 2, 2009

The eldest Jonas brother, Kevin, and his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa (DAH'-lees-ah) were engaged Wednesday. ...more

July 1, 2009

A former Hillsborough County minister accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl in 2005 has been sentenced to seven years in prison. ...more

June 30, 2009

In today's Hernando Today health section ...more

June 17, 2009

Lakeland police are investigating whether a 4-year-old girl was molested while playing at a public park. The girl was playing inside a tube slide with an older child Friday at Common Ground Park, 1000 E. Edgewood Drive in Lakeland, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. When she emerged from the slide, her shorts were pulled down and her underwear was on backward, Gillen said. ...more

June 15, 2009

Friends of 17-year-old Dustin Sean White gathered Sunday afternoon around the cordoned-off clubhouse parking lot where the teen was shot and killed early Sunday morning. ...more

June 15, 2009

Tampa General Hospital is offering free school physicals and immunizations for children entering the Florida school system for the first time from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The examinations will be conducted at HealthPark, 5802 N. 30th St. ...more

June 15, 2009

area death ...more

June 14, 2009

Queen Latifah has revealed a traumatic chapter of her personal life: The singer-actress was sexually abused as a child. ...more

June 10, 2009