An administrative law judge has rejected a 47.1 percent rate increase request by State Farm Insurance, the state's largest private property insurer. ...more

December 12, 2008

End Of An Era When the residents of Lexington fired on the British troops, there was no appreciation for the moment defining the nation's birth pangs. Yet it did. And when "the shot heard round the world" was iconized, that space and its many actors gained immortality. ...more

October 19, 2008

CLEARWATER - To cut $25 million from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office budget, the agency may have to eliminate its DUI squad, Sheriff Jim Coats said today. ...more

June 23, 2008

An independent commission's 400-page report concludes that the nation "does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available" to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident, "an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater risk." ...more

February 1, 2008

The U.S. military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. ...more

February 1, 2008

Global warming is destroying species, raising sea levels and threatening millions of poor people, the United Nations' top scientific panel is expected to say in a report today that U.N. officials hope will help mobilize the world to take tougher actions on climate change. ...more

November 17, 2007

When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again. ...more

October 16, 2007