After an onslaught of wind and torrential rain that transformed some Tampa Bay area roads into rivers, the storm clouds finally parted Wednesday evening to make way for this brilliant sunset over Lake Maggiore in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 5, 2009

The 2008 hurricane season ends today and passes with barely a notice in Florida. Residents of Texas and islands in the Caribbean Sea have a different view. ...more

November 30, 2008

The 2008 hurricane season ends Sunday and will pass with barely a notice in Florida. Residents of Texas and islands in the Caribbean Sea, however, would have a different view of this year's season. For the third year in a row, Florida escaped a hurricane. Only Tropical Storm Fay hit – again and again – though West Central Florida saw little of the torrential rain Fay hosed on the rest of the state. ...more

November 28, 2008

Not only did the Seminoles put on full pads Tuesday and get to tackle for the first time this preseason, but also they got to do it in a driving rain storm. ...more

August 12, 2008

The Mississippi River climbed toward its high-water mark Monday at St. Louis and was expected to crest over the next couple of days at points downriver, but the worst of the flood of 2008 appeared to be over. ...more

July 1, 2008

It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run Monday. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 20, 2008

GAINESVILLE - It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run today. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 19, 2008

TAMPA - Local knowledge got Tampa Bay Tech as far as the Armwood 21 on its opening drive of the game.

It got the Titans almost nowhere after that.

October 6, 2007

TAMPA - Local knowledge got Tampa Bay Tech as far as the Armwood 21 on its opening drive of the game.

It got the Titans almost nowhere after that.

October 6, 2007