Four Boy Scouts with Troop 808, two 12-year-olds and two 13-year-olds, were awarded a national honor, the Medal of Merit, for their role last July in rescuing a woman from the cold waters of the Nantahala River in North Carolina. ...more

March 2, 2009

A Lutz man who led authorities on a high-speed boat chase in January pleaded guilty to federal charges of ramming a Coast Guard inflatable boat with a stolen 28-foot powerboat. ...more

December 23, 2008

North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Demark - in summer, a land of brown mountains streaked with snow-filled gullies, low clouds that blur distinctions of sky and land, and wide glaciers reaching the ocean in gashes of bright sky blue. ...more

July 18, 2008