With a few new wrinkles and the same ol' Bubba, the Sebring Blue Streaks reasserted their regional supremacy Friday night in one of the state's richest rivalries. ...more

November 15, 2009

To commemorate an achievement no less than a lifetime in the making, newly minted U.S. citizen Regina Simmons received from her very best American friends ... a book. But not just any book. It was "1776," David McCullough's well-woven tale about the struggling birth of American liberty - a condition that today is as often taken for granted as it is poorly understood. ...more

March 29, 2009

Legislation that would guarantee public access to any Florida beach moved forward in the state House on Tuesday. ...more

March 25, 2009

Legislation that would guarantee public access to any Florida beach moved forward in the state House today. ...more

March 24, 2009

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center in Wesley Chapel may get the green light from federal regulators to continue work. ...more

December 17, 2008

The Mississippi River climbed toward its high-water mark Monday at St. Louis and was expected to crest over the next couple of days at points downriver, but the worst of the flood of 2008 appeared to be over. ...more

July 1, 2008

The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. ...more

June 25, 2008

The Audubon patrol had been on the water less than 10 minutes Saturday when the first damsel in distress came into view. ...more

May 25, 2008

Three years after the United Nations adopted a groundbreaking resolution to help it intervene to stop genocide, even longtime supporters of the rule acknowledge it has not helped the organization end the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. ...more

January 20, 2008

Dodging tires, furniture and geysers of water, Bert Carver paddled a borrowed plastic boat through the murky streets of a defeated neighborhood. ...more

December 6, 2007