NASA's new rocket is on the launching pad. ...more

October 20, 2009

Walt Disney World Resort has announced a series of new attractions and events for the summer season, including a return to "treehouse lodging" at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa and a tethered balloon that lifts 30 guests 300 feet over Downtown Disney. ...more

March 6, 2009

TAMPA -- Kevin and Jackie Transue began their latest trip to Mexico this morning by driving from their Spring Hill home to Tampa International Airport, where a mariachi band provided entertainment for JetBlue Airways' inaugural Tampa-Cancun flight. JetBlue and TIA celebrated the restoration of Tampa-Cancun service, which four other airlines have planned or tried since the 1980s before choosing other routes for reasons ranging from hurricane damage in Mexico to low ridership. ...more

December 18, 2008

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton came to this tiny town on Friday for their first public appearance after a bitter primary fight. Less certain was whether Unity would come to them. ...more

June 28, 2008

Even when everything goes right on Karlo Felix's job, the day is still hairy. If the GPS coordinates are correct, and his 200-mph flight to the scene is safe, and he finds the right spot to land his Black Hawk, and he touches down evenly and without stirring a brownout of dust, and the medics find the wounded soldiers and carry them back, and he lifts off in time to save the fighters' lives - it has gone as well as it can go. ...more

February 22, 2008

A teenager whose appendix ruptured at sea, hundreds of miles from help, got safely to shore Tuesday after an unusual rescue in which the Navy airlifted her from a cruise ship for emergency surgery. ...more

December 19, 2007