If you're wondering why Congress feels empowered to call the plays on the college bowl game lineup, blame the guy who fancies himself quarterback in chief. Barack Obama clinched the couch potato vote last fall by declaring his support for a playoff series to pick the national champion, then promised after his election to "throw my weight around a little bit" to make it happen. ...more

December 20, 2009

Assailants threw two grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revelers, killing seven and injuring more than 100 in a brazen attack that escalates the war between Mexico's army and drug gangs. ...more

September 17, 2008

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. ...more

November 16, 2007

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is a focus of an international investigation into the purchase of airplanes by a Mexican drug cartel. Mexican authorities who arrested a top financier for the Sinaloa drug cartel uncovered the connection between the cartel and the purchase of two jets that took off from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport on separate dates. One jet was seized, and the other crashed in Mexico. A total of nearly 10 tons of cocaine was found onboard the jets, according to Mexican authorities. ...more

November 15, 2007