The managing operators of Plant City Airport are used to challenges to their business. ...more

May 24, 2008

It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run Monday. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 20, 2008

GAINESVILLE - It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run today. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 19, 2008

Insult To Floridians Regarding "Can State Spare A Dime At Pump?" (front page, April 29): ...more

May 2, 2008

Using 60 pounds of charcoal briquettes and some lighter fluid, a massive cooker made from a 500-gallon tank was ignited just a few hours before Thursday night's youth steer sale at the 61st annual Pasco County Fair. ...more

February 23, 2008

Mother Nature must be a fan of the U.S. space program, judging from her benevolence in pushing aside bad weather long enough for seven astronauts to roar into orbit. ...more

February 7, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL – Mother Nature must be a fan of the U.S. space program, judging from her benevolence in pushing aside bad weather long enough for seven astronauts to roar into orbit. ...more

February 7, 2008

The scope of the disaster, from the minutiae to the monumental, was front-page news. Eyewitness accounts mixed with morbid speculation, all devoured by the public with equal parts hand-wringing and schadenfreude. It had the makings of an epic catastrophe, the stuff of Greek tragedy - one man's hubris leading to utter devastation and ruin. ...more

December 18, 2007

State Rep. Bill Galvano will ask state environmental regulators to begin new soil testing at Bayshore High School to determine what, if any, toxins may be making scores of alumni sick. ...more

October 27, 2007

Jim Ammons grumbles to himself every time he fills up his Ford Expedition, but he says gas prices would have to almost quadruple to $10 a gallon before he would ditch his SUV. ...more

October 20, 2007