The plan for our nine-day vacation was to see everything of Utah's great outdoors worth seeing. ...more

November 13, 2009

In 1999, pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others died in a crash of a flight bound from Orlando to Dallas that wound up in South Dakota. The occupants of the Learjet apparently succumbed to altitude-induced hypoxia, caused by loss of cabin pressure. ...more

March 28, 2009

In 1999, pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others died in a crash of a flight bound from Orlando to Dallas that wound up in South Dakota. The occupants of the Learjet apparently succumbed to altitude-induced hypoxia, caused by loss of cabin pressure. ...more

March 27, 2009

After decades of wondering, Joe Seyfried finds out his brother Francis perished in one of World War II's most fascinating stories. ...more

January 31, 2009

Other than Walmart, politics is the only arena where old people get all the jobs. But the Democratic National Committee set a goal this year to have 10 percent of its elected delegates be young, which the party defines as 35 or under. I'm guessing they define old as Robert Byrd's parents. ...more

September 3, 2008

Working Vacation Always Ends Up Being Work I need to apologize to you and my editor for not submitting my column last week as I had planned, but the best made plans of man oft go awry, and my plans certainly did not happen as I had thought they would. ...more

July 17, 2008

Signs of increasing risk along the shore are apparent from space. Satellite photos released by NOAA show steady development of coastal lands between Texas and North Carolina. ...more

May 5, 2008

New research is challenging the long-held position that comets and asteroids are as different as lions and lemurs. ...more

January 25, 2008

SPRING HILL — Ray Cannata takes the kind of vacations the brochures call "aggressive." ...more

November 3, 2007

AVON PARK — Residents throughout Avon Park and Sebring have probably noticed more noise than usual in the sky this week. Troops ended a large-scale training exercise Monday at Avon Park Air Force Range for air-to-ground missions. Although this exercise involved bomb replicas, live bombs will be dropped at the range in less than a year. Jim Brantley, spokesman for U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said a bid for a contractor to construct the infrastructure for dropping live bombs will be awarded in about five weeks. Land clearing and construction on towers and instrumentation will start in January 2008. ...more

October 31, 2007