"Is he gonna turn the switch, or what's he gonna do?" At 9 a.m. Tuesday, the five men in the coffee clatch at McDonald's were manning their usual stations. None planned to go to the Turner Center, where the president's helicopter was supposed to meet a motorcade of a dozen black Suburbans, white government SUVs and local police cars. ...more

October 28, 2009

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. ...more

July 6, 2008

The Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday accused major Hollywood studios of offering a contract deal worth less than an agreement approved by the leaders of a smaller actors union. ...more

June 26, 2008

DADE CITY - Faced with a mountain of overtime debt, officials in this east Pasco County municipality have come up with a novel approach to compensate workers: offering them plots in the city's cemetery. For a limited time, city staff will be able to trade in some of their accumulated overtime for a reservation in the historical Dade City Cemetery off Martin Luther King Boulevard. ...more

May 28, 2008