MIAMI - A farmworker advocacy group and Burger King have agreed on a deal to help improve wages and conditions for Florida tomato pickers. ...more

May 23, 2008

It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run Monday. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 20, 2008

GAINESVILLE - It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run today. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 19, 2008

You may have seen the public service commercial. A woman brings her young daughter out to the car and straps her into a car seat. The announcer reminds us that 37,000 Americans are killed every year in automobile accidents, which made me think it was sponsored by the National Safety Council or a seat-belt advocacy group. ...more

May 18, 2008

When Army Spc. Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and free thinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. ...more

May 10, 2008

A national autism advocacy group is demanding an apology from CBS over a disparaging remark a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" made about people with the disorder. ...more

February 19, 2008

If global warming accelerates over the next century, many scientists fear the planet's largest ecosystem could reach a tipping point with depleting nutrients in the oceans. ...more

February 18, 2008

The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase the monthly premiums paid by wealthier Medicare beneficiaries for prescription drug coverage, officials said Friday. ...more

February 16, 2008

The shockwave of reaction has reached a national audience as more people see a jail videotape showing a Hillsborough County corrections deputy dumping an inmate from his wheelchair. ...more

February 14, 2008

TAMPA - The shockwave of reaction has reached a national audience as more people see a jail videotape showing a Hillsborough corrections deputy dumping an inmate from his wheelchair. ...more

February 13, 2008