The sides of the rectangular pit revealed a cross-section of earth: grey and lumpy on top, smooth yellow sand underneath. ...more

March 14, 2009

Deputies called to a mobile home park today to remove a revolver and bullets found something else - what appeared to be military ordnance. ...more

January 30, 2009

Sickles High School students touched up cookie and graham cracker tiles with icing mortar Wednesday as they worked to complete a gingerbread house taller than the teens. ...more

December 4, 2008

The latest in plywood-reinforced walls, tied-down foundations, strengthened concrete and stronger welds - if an earthquake had to hit somewhere in densely populated Southern California, this relatively new suburb of 80,000 people was about the best place possible. ...more

July 31, 2008

U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday. ...more

July 12, 2008

Mother and baby are fine, but the father is still a bit shaken after his fourth child was born, this one on the living room carpet in the family's Palencia Apartments home. ...more

July 5, 2008

Harriet Foundas became principal of West Shore Elementary shortly after renovations of the 1926 building were completed in time for its 50th anniversary. ...more

May 30, 2008

June 8 wasn't just any day for Sgt. Marcus C. Mathes. It was the day he married his sweetheart, Julia, in 2002 - three years before he enlisted in the U.S. Army and shipped out for a five-month tour of duty in war-torn Afghanistan. ...more

May 10, 2008

Tony Giaccone had just gone to bed Thursday night when he heard a blast from the house next door, one so strong it blew out the windows in a bedroom. ...more

December 29, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - A St. Petersburg fireworks display operator lost his left hand Thursday night as he was trying to pry open a pyrotechnic mortar with a screwdriver and it exploded, authorities said. ...more

December 28, 2007