Local youths competing in last month's Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games in Detroit earned high honors in the karate division, including one teenager whose three gold medals earned her an outstanding performance award. ...more

August 13, 2008

Two French exchange students from the international student exchange program Echanges Culturels Internationaux, Sandy Promonet, 15, and Lauren Seynaeve, 14, found common ground recently with local girls who like to twirl batons. ...more

August 13, 2008

U.S. gymnast Morgan Hamm withdrew Thursday from the Olympics, two days before competition begins. He aggravated a chronic injury in his left ankle during training in Beijing, and it never responded to treatment. He clearly struggled on floor exercise during the men's training session Wednesday, and it wasn't any better Thursday. ...more

August 8, 2008

President Bush dedicated the massive new $434 million U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, saying it is a symbol of deepening ties between the two trading partners and sometimes political rivals. ...more

August 8, 2008

BRANDON As Chris Colwill walked along the pool deck at the Brandon Sports and Aquatic Center, he couldn't help but think back to all the time he had spent there as a kid. ...more

August 6, 2008

Ten years of hard work has finally paid off for Ben Barger. The windsurfer will be competing next week in sailing at the Olympics in Beijing. ...more

August 5, 2008

Tick, tick, tick. The official countdown clock in Tiananmen Square hits "4 Days To Go" today. More than 40 million potted flowers are in bloom everywhere, even along the center medians of gritty highways. And for several days now, blue skies have taken the place of the usual gray smog. ...more

August 4, 2008

The plan called for him to qualify for the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, gain some experience among America's top quarter-milers, and, after running a round or two, bow out gracefully and return to the University of Florida to begin his junior year. ...more

August 4, 2008

Damu Cherry was a good hurdler on the Leto High track team, but never a state champion. And when she went on to compete for the University of South Florida in the event, she never won a conference title. ...more

August 3, 2008

An elderly couple from a rural Southern province in China visit the big city of Beijing for the first time. There, in the Imperial Gardens, they see something they have only heard about: Westerners. ...more

August 2, 2008