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• Safety Advocates Get a Victory for Stronger Roofs

  Jeffrey Meldon | June 01, 2009 9:44 AM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Good news for automobile safety advocates – the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently passed a new rule requirin light vehicles to have stronger roofs. According to...

• Heads up to everyone on the roads in and around Daytona Beach:

  Jeffrey Meldon | February 18, 2009 9:55 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Heads up to everyone on the roads in and around Daytona Beach: Over the next few weeks our area will be host to nearly half a million bikers coming from all over the country for the biggest...

• Shands Hospital at UF is an elite Level 1 Trama Center

  Jeffrey Meldon | August 04, 2008 1:23 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  If you have a life threatening injury caused by a automobile accident the trauma center at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida is the place to go. Since 2004, the Shands Trauma Center has...

• Car Crash Kills Driver

  Craig Cannon | May 01, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  A 19-year-old Silver Springs man died Sunday after a two-car crash. The crash occurred at the intersection of Northwest 145th Avenue Road and County Road 326. After the car crash Joshua Joseph Stacy was transported to Shands Hospital in Gainesville. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Stacy was driving a 1990 Chevrolet Cavalier at the time of the crash. Stacy was traveling south on...

• Dog and Cat Food Recalled

  Shannon Weidemann | March 21, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Menu Foods, a pet food manufacturer based in Canada has announced a recall of 60 million cans and foil pouches of dog and cat food. The food may cause kidney failure and even death in cats and dogs. A spokeswoman for the Allegany County Animal Shelter in Cumberland said that while she has not seen any animals displaying symptoms of kidney failure, she has received numerous inquires about the...

• No Polk County Nursing Homes on Florida's Watch List

  Shannon Weidemann | January 30, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  The quality of care and level of safety have improved in Florida's nursing homes since laws were passed in 2001 to improve the standards. These measures included more time spent with each patient that is charted, more nurses to be hired, and that nursing homes must carry liability insurance. Six nursing homes in Polk County have made Florida's Watch List in the past, which alerts the public to...

• Red Bull + Driving = Bad Idea… Heads Up!

  Jeffrey Meldon | June 09, 2009 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Highly caffeinated drinks such as Red Bull and Rockstar have begun to replace a good night’s sleep in many teen and young adult lives. Filling schedules with school, extracurricular activities...

• Reaction to Ocala Bus Tragedy

  Jeffrey Meldon | October 02, 2008 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Only days after the tragic death of middle school student Frances Schee--caused by an accident between the school bus on which Frances was riding and a tractor trailer--Elissa Schee, the mother of...

• Gainesville Move Over Law Crackdown

  Jeffrey Meldon | May 05, 2008 6:53 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Gainesville/Alachua County will begin a crackdown on enforcing a five year old law requiring drivers to move over to avoid police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks on the side of the road. The move...

• Two Remain in Critical Condition After Saturday Crash

  Jenny Albano | February 21, 2008 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Two people remain in critical condition after a fatal two-car accident on Saturday, February 16. The drivers of the vehicles are still at Orlando Regional Medical Center.Authorities said one of the drivers, Jeremy Leon Halfcare, 20, of Eustis, refuses to speak with troopers about the accident, which claimed the life of his passenger and cousin, 18-year-old Ray Edward Jenkins.The authorities are...