A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. ...more

August 21, 2008

Two friends who live in Walden Lake have been riding together for almost five years - not in a car or truck, or on motorcycles or bikes, but on handcycles, recreational, hand-powered, three-wheeled wheelchairs for those who have lost the use of their legs. ...more

August 20, 2008

Dear Abby: I'm afraid my best friend's daughter, "Kami," may have Munchausen syndrome. People with this condition consciously fake the symptoms of a physical disorder. ...more

August 17, 2008

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office corporal was fired and a second deputy resigned over the treatment in January of a quadriplegic inmate, according to internal affairs reports released Tuesday. ...more

August 13, 2008

Nine Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office employees were negligent in their treatment of quadriplegic former Orient Road Jail inmate Brian Sterner, according to an internal affairs report released today. ...more

August 12, 2008

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- and possibly the American Civil Liberties Union -- is expected to attend the next meeting of the commission designed to independently review Hillsborough County's jail system, according to the commission's chairman. ...more

July 17, 2008

'A Cautionary Tale' Regarding "A Life Shattered" by Geoff Fox, June 29: How many times have you guys been with a female companion, and a strange male made some remark about her? Usually it's a guy with a group of guys. ...more

July 13, 2008

What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

A former Hillsborough County detention deputy who was seen on video dumping a quadriplegic man from his wheelchair has entered a pretrial intervention program today that will result in charges against her being dropped. ...more

June 30, 2008

The owners of a local business are making sure everyone can ride a "hog" if they want to. ...more

June 18, 2008