Trying to counter claims about the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an environmental group presented a study Wednesday hoping to show that it could be more expensive if Florida doesn't try to stop global warming. ...more

November 29, 2007

Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in time to vote in next November's presidential election. ...more

November 23, 2007

Midshipmen Joy Dewey and Joshua Foxton hope to hear familiar epithets when they ask a group of new students at the U.S. Naval Academy to describe promiscuous men and women. ...more

November 18, 2007

Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare loggerhead sea turtles that inhabit the Atlantic coast officially endangered, maintaining that tens of thousands of them are killed annually by commercial fishing and because of coastal development. ...more

November 15, 2007

You can look at it either way. Marriages in New York City start with a $1 discount. Or, domestic partnerships are assessed a $1 tax. ...more

October 19, 2007

When it comes to treating substance abuse, Florida can pay now or pay later. In the quest to trim the state budget, lawmakers are gambling on later. ...more

October 17, 2007

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would look into claims from an advocacy group that certain lipsticks contain potentially dangerous levels of lead. ...more

October 13, 2007

Don't stock up on silver anniversary cards. More than half the Americans who might have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversaries since 2000 were divorced, separated or widowed before reaching that milestone, according to the latest census survey, released Wednesday. ...more

September 20, 2007

The Yacoub family is intact - well, mostly. Six of seven children were home in Lakeland on Friday after being prohibited from boarding an airplane in Tel Aviv, Israel, more than two weeks ago because of their Palestinian heritage. ...more

September 8, 2007

TAMPA - The Yacoub family is intact - well, mostly. Six of the seven children who were prohibited from boarding an airplane in Tel Aviv more than two weeks ago because of their Palestinian heritage are home in Lakeland. ...more

September 7, 2007