Excerpts from a recent editorial in newspaper in the United States: The New York Post, on President Obama and Iran: ...more

November 24, 2009

A highly trained 200-pound chimpanzee who once starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola was shot dead by police after a violent rampage that left a friend of its owner badly mauled. ...more

February 17, 2009

and, as events bespoke, not only me - when the original site for the sixth more-or-less annual "Lingerie Bowl" succumbed to West Tampa neighborhood standards that the readymade venue for such an epic sporting event was just up the road in the thumping heart of Pasco County. ...more

January 28, 2009

Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the FBI in Utah today, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site. ...more

December 8, 2008

A detention deputy at the Pinellas County Jail has been suspended for 15 days after he arced an electronic control weapon near the head of an inmate who was sleeping, and then misrepresented what he had done, according to a Pinellas sheriff's memo released this morning. ...more

November 5, 2008

Gas prices have dropped by more than $1 per gallon in the last month, but motorists are not feeling any richer just yet. ...more

October 27, 2008

North Korea kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors from a plant that previously produced weapons-grade plutonium and notified the nuclear watchdog that it would restart operations as early as next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. ...more

September 25, 2008

A man stabbed Saturday while sitting on the front porch of a boarding house was hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. ...more

June 23, 2008

A man stabbed Saturday night while sitting on front porch of a boarding house was hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. ...more

June 22, 2008

It is meant to be a celebration of childhood, but in Sichuan province on Sunday, Children's Day turned into a day of mourning and a provocation to parents whose children were crushed to death by falling school buildings during the powerful earthquake three weeks ago. ...more

June 2, 2008