SEVEN SPRINGS - Acting on a federal search warrant, vice officers discovered cocaine, prescription drugs and narcotics paraphernalia inside an upscale home in a gated subdivision Tuesday morning. ...more

February 12, 2008

It was a simple idea, with big potential. For years, marksmen have been using a technique called bump firing, shooting a semiautomatic rifle from the hip and allowing the weapon's recoil to pull the trigger. ...more

December 26, 2007

HUDSON - It was a simple idea, with big potential. For years, marksmen have been using a technique called bump firing, shooting a semiautomatic rifle from the hip and allowing the weapon's recoil to pull the trigger. With federal regulations keeping fully automatic weapons out of their hands, it was one of the few ways for firearm enthusiasts to enjoy the thrill of firing a machine gun. ...more

December 21, 2007

Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were searching his apartment, authorities said. ...more

November 3, 2007

An intense fire ravaged a beach house packed with college students early Sunday, killing seven and leaving little left of the structure but its charred frame and the stilts on which it stood. ...more

October 29, 2007

David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres. ...more

October 16, 2007

Hours before hip-hop music's biggest night, one of the industry's hottest acts was arrested by federal agents for allegedly buying machine guns. ...more

October 15, 2007

As she attends the 20th reunion of Lakeland High School's Class of 1987 this weekend, Meradith McGee-Hale said she can't help thinking of a classmate arrested this week and accused of threatening violence at the event. ...more

October 5, 2007

On a Web page preparing for their 20-year reunion this weekend, members of Lakeland High School's Class of 1987 wrote short blurbs about their children and jobs in architectural design, investment banking or the military. ...more

October 4, 2007

A 39-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night for sending an e-mail threatening to make the Lakeland High School reunion worse than the Virginia Tech shootings, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

October 4, 2007