Doctors know that obesity can render children less likely to benefit from anti-cancer drug therapy and suffer relapse. Researchers think they may know why. ...more

November 26, 2009

North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast cancer, died on Saturday. She was 66. ...more

January 24, 2009

Pasco County's lack of artistic and cultural events bothers Adrienne Reed. To help remedy the situation, she decided to stretch her creative muscle. ...more

January 14, 2009

Christa Benton is usually an upbeat person by nature. Upbeat almost to a fault. When she runs 10k races, she often tries to pass the time with pleasant thoughts. ...more

November 28, 2008

Christa Benton is an upbeat person by nature. So when she runs 10K races, she often tries to pass the time with pleasant thoughts. ...more

November 27, 2008

The Tampa Police Department Gladiators edged the Tampa Fire Rescue Firestorm 28-22 in the annual Badge Bowl charity flag football game. ...more

November 22, 2008

Seven-year-old Angelo Cerchione enjoys being a star. The boy, who suffers from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, stood up through a car's sunroof earlier this week at a Tinker Elementary School pep rally in his honor. ...more

November 22, 2008

Saturday, 7-year-old Angelo Cerchione and his family will head to Wharton High School to watch Tampa police officers and firefighters face off in the Badge Bowl, a fundraising flag-football game that each year benefits a child with cancer. This year, Angelo will be the beneficiary. ...more

November 21, 2008

Nothing can take away the pain of losing a 15-year-old daughter to leukemia, but the family of a former Burney Elementary School student knows she won't be forgotten at the school she loved. ...more

August 13, 2008

Mary Billman often relies on volunteer drivers to take her to and from chemotherapy treatments at her doctors' office in Tampa. ...more

July 2, 2008