After a dozen elders overheated and died in a Hollywood nursing home during Hurricane Irma last year, Florida has passed new rules requiring health facilities to install backup generators capable of keeping the air conditioning blowing if the power goes out. The state healthcare agency in charge of regulating institutions…
A motorcyclist was hit and killed while traveling on U.S. 19 in Pinellas County on Wednesday. Troopers identified the victim as a 25-year-old man from Port Richey. He was driving northbound on US 19 when a Ford F150 turned left into the path of the motorcycle causing the fatal collision.…
Tampa Police have arrested two men for street racing on the Gandy Bridge. Both men face unlawful racing on a highway charges. Police say they stopped the two men late Saturday night and found two children in one of the men’s cars. Both children were less than 5 years old.…
A Tampa Bay Area family wants changes after a 63-year-old was struck and killed by a car while crossing 40th street in the Temple Crest community. This woman is at least the second person who has been hit and killed while crossing the street in recent years. There is a…
According to AAA travel club, more than 41.5 million people will travel for the 2018 Memorial Day weekend, which is 4.8% more than last year. This will be the most travelers since 2005 for the holiday period that runs from May 24 through May 28 this year. AAA goes on…
A wrong-way driver was killed late Monday in a crash in Plant City. According to Plant City police, A 2002 Volkswagen Passat traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of N. Alexander Street collided head-on with a semi truck just before midnight. The man driving the Volkswagen was killed at the…
A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a bus in Tarpon Springs on Thursday. According to Tarpon Springs police, the crash occurred around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Tarpon Avenue and Huey Avenue. The motorcyclist, an 18-year-old man, collided with a privately operated bus. No passengers were aboard…
Two people have died after two personal watercrafts collided in Tampa. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said a 42-year-old Tampa man was fatally injured when his watercraft collided Monday in the waters off Tampa with a watercraft driven by a 41-year-old Clearwater woman. The man died at a…
Pinellas County parents are suing a St. Petersburg hospital, alleging negligence in the delivery of their son. The couple filed a complaint on April 2 in Pinellas Circuit Court against CHS/Community Health Systems Inc., doing business as Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, alleging the hospital breached professional standards of care and…
A man is dead after a boat capsized Saturday afternoon in Tampa, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The incident happened shortly before 2 p.m. in Hillsborough Bay just south of Davis Islands. Emergency responders arrived at the scene after receiving 911 calls about six people clinging…