In an unprecedented step, a second space shuttle was moved to the launchpad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make: a rescue mission. ...more

September 20, 2008

A strong outgoing tide at Ponce Inlet on Florida's east coast turned Saturday evening's swim into a Coast Guard rescue mission. ...more

September 9, 2008

A strong outgoing tide at Ponce Inlet on Florida's east coast turned a Saturday evening swim into a Coast Guard rescue mission. ...more

September 8, 2008

The sensational rescue of 15 hostages from the grip of Latin America's largest rebel group has highlighted the severely diminished state of an organization that just six years ago threatened to overrun the Colombian government. ...more

July 6, 2008

NORTH PORT - Investigators have moved the search for a missing mother of two who was kidnapped from her North Port home Thursday to Manatee County. ...more

January 18, 2008

The death toll from a cyclone that devastated Bangladesh has surpassed 2,200, officials said Sunday, while rescuers struggled through blocked paths to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors awaiting aid in wrecked homes and flooded fields. ...more

November 19, 2007

The tattoo on Jason Carter's throat reads: 'sober.' It's a badge of honor for the recovering drug addict and former prison inmate. ...more

October 8, 2007

A daring ambush of bombs and gunfire left Poland's ambassador burned and pinned down in a flaming vehicle Wednesday before he was pulled to safety and airlifted in a rescue mission by the embattled security company Blackwater USA. ...more

October 4, 2007

U.S., Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea Thursday looking for survivors and the dead from Hurricane Felix's rampage. ...more

September 7, 2007