Move over Howl-O-Scream. The production might be smaller, but the organizers of Cork Knights of Screams 5 feel they can hold their own against Busch Garden's premiere Halloween fright night. ...more

October 28, 2009

It was deathly still inside the brick home Lisa McLendon shared with her 28-year-old son, save for the flames that crackled as her body lay on a smoldering couch under a heap of burning clothes. ...more

March 12, 2009

The explosion of an overturned petrol tanker Saturday night in Kenya could be felt for miles, and in the moments that followed, people ablaze, their clothes burned off, ran to the bush in a futile effort to escape the pain and begged for help. ...more

February 2, 2009

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office is moving from its downtown office on Morgan Street to higher ground near the University of South Florida. ...more

September 25, 2008

What Rodel Laborte could not forget was the screaming of fellow passengers. ...more

June 25, 2008

The mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar scheme to loot hundreds of corpses and sell their body parts apologized Thursday to families of the victims and thousands of tissue recipients. ...more

June 13, 2008

CHINA - The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims. ...more

May 18, 2008

Radioactive carbon-14 trapped in the lens of the eye permits researchers to accurately date the year of a person's birth, according to Danish scientists. ...more

February 23, 2008

SEBRING — While their families enjoy turkey dinners today, 18 youth from First United Methodist Church are feeding 5,000 people in the Bahamas. Rick Heilig, youth minister, said the feeding of 5,000 is a reference to the Gospel, in which Jesus blessed five loaves of bread and two fish and it fed 5,000 people. The youth will be feeding turkey, ham, rice, green beans and fruit cocktail at various churches and sites throughout Freeport, Bahamas. "This is the first time we have done a feeding, but we felt it was important to focus on food and hunger," Heilig said. ...more

November 22, 2007

'Dark of the Moon,' by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95) ...more

October 19, 2007