You may be being poisoned by your own drinking water, whether that water comes from a municipal source or your own private well. This shocking revelation came to me quite by chance and began when I asked the Highlands County Administrator Michael Wright if old, discontinued left-over prescription drugs could be brought to the Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Waste Collection March 7. ...more

April 1, 2009

Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure. ...more

December 4, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay's winds and rain largely missed the Tampa Bay area, but that doesn't mean their effect wasn't felt by taxpayers. ...more

August 20, 2008

Shares of General Electric Co. briefly fell to their lowest point in more than four years Monday when an analyst downgraded the company's stock and predicted a challenging environment for its business operations. ...more

June 17, 2008

Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008