A North Carolina researcher says the 2009 hurricane season for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts will be about average and slightly less active than last year. ...more

April 9, 2009

It will take a while before the refineries along the Gulf coasts of Texas and Louisiana are operating at full strength, but retail gasoline prices could still tick downward this week. ...more

September 29, 2008

The King Air climbed into the sky over the cypress and black gum trees in the Pearl River delta at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, and left behind a swampland thrashed and washed over by Hurricane Gustav's storm surge. ...more

September 7, 2008

I hope you're not eating breakfast. It was 20 years ago when I first saw "the jar" on a desk in the humane education room at the SPCA Tampa Bay in Largo. It was filled with formaldehyde - and a large canine heart oozing spaghettilike worms, some of them up to a foot long! ...more

May 21, 2008