After a massive manhunt, Paul Martikainen and his 3-year-old son were found aboard a sailboat this morning and are OK, Cocoa police said. They were found in the Gulf of Mexico more than 100 miles south of Sanibel, police spokeswoman Barbara Matthews said. ...more

December 1, 2009

Necropsies will be performed on a pair of pygmy sperm whales found stranded off Florida's southwest coast. ...more

July 12, 2009

Hurricane Norbert weakened to a Category 1 storm after it swept across Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee their flooded homes. ...more

October 12, 2008

In the end, Tropical Storm Fay never made it to Pasco County. But the county's emergency management director said Tuesday the storm offered a good chance to go over emergency routines again. ...more

August 20, 2008

The Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross has more than 2,000 volunteers it can call on in times of disaster. But it faces a challenge: 60 percent of those volunteers are retirees, joining at an older age. ...more

August 14, 2008

"Some people think naval architects sit around all day and sketch pretty boats," Nick Boksa says. "That has very little to do with most of my projects. Basically, we are trying to design a luxury house that can be blasted through 4-foot waves at 30 knots and still stay in one piece. It's all about engineering and number-crunching." ...more

January 31, 2008

Commercial mullet netters, who saw their catches cut more than 60 percent by the 1995 net-ban amendment, have requested that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ease harvest regulations now that the fish have recovered to healthy levels statewide. ...more

January 27, 2008

Knock on wood. Let us whistle past the graveyard. We have dodged the bullet. ...more

January 13, 2008