VENUS - Nearly a month after a plane crash took the life of a noted black bear researcher, research on South Central Florida's black bear population has been at a near-standstill. ...more

July 15, 2008

Upset they're not getting their raises and their contract talks are at a standstill, about 125 firefighters, their friends and their families picketed Friday outside City Hall. ...more

January 19, 2008

Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election, a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. ...more

January 1, 2008

A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and demanded to speak to the candidate during a hostage drama that dragged on for nearly six hours before he peacefully surrendered. ...more

December 1, 2007

Michael Bennett still has it. He still doesn't flaunt it. His mother would never allow it. ...more

October 18, 2007

AVON PARK — There's a saying in prize fighting: Everyone has a plan until they've been hit. Well, the Avon Park Red Devils have been hit from all sides — even from themselves — and now find themselves on the gridiron canvas. The question is whether they can pick themselves up and turn around what looks to be a lost season. Or is it? People seem to forget that the Red Devils were 6-1 at this time last season and went on to lose their final three games and the tiebreaker against arch-rival Sebring. ...more

October 12, 2007

It was an unfortunate mistake. That is the argument Daniel Comeau is making as he asks Tarpon Springs officials not to severely punish him for a violation of the city's preservation-minded tree ordinance. ...more

September 8, 2007