More than a million homes and businesses were left in the cold without power Thursday in the wake of an icy winter storm could face a lengthy wait for electricity to come back, even as federal help was promised to two states hit hardest by the blast. ...more

January 30, 2009

There's a TV commercial that's been going around for a while. I'm not sure how effective it is because I can't remember what they are trying to sell, but then that's not unusual these days. ...more

October 24, 2008

It is the biggest machine ever built. Everyone says it looks like a movie set for a corny James Bond villain. They are correct. The machine is attended by brainiacs wearing hard hats and running around on catwalks. They are looking for the answer to the question: Where does everything in the universe come from? ...more

September 11, 2008

You have to love the summer. Book publishers start cranking out the releases, hoping to catch you in a reading mood. Mission accomplished, as far as I am concerned. The following are among the books available this week. ...more

June 22, 2008

On a sunny Saturday, more than 300 people stood in clusters squinting out at the gurgling Mississippi River and the spot where one of the state's most-traveled bridges fell down one evening last August, killing 13 people and injuring many more. ...more

June 8, 2008

A backhoe ripped down a mobile home Wednesday where a young mother and her two children were slain. ...more

May 29, 2008

LUTZ - As a demolition crew's backhoe ripped down the walls of a mobile home where a young mother and her two children were found slain, her son's classmates honored them this morning by planting a memorial garden. ...more

May 28, 2008

Hard hats were hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's nearby refinery. ...more

February 24, 2008

Chalk tap, tap, taps on the board as Wendy Hou scrawls circles, angles and numbers in a search for the right equation. ...more

February 14, 2008

Chalk tap, tap, taps on the board as Wendy Hou scrawls circles, angles and numbers in a search for the right equation. ...more

February 14, 2008