Hurricane Bill weakened slightly early today but still threatened to flood Bermuda's coastlines and generate dangerous waves and riptides along the eastern U.S. coast. ...more

August 21, 2009

The National Hurricane Center has dropped all tropical storm warnings for Florida's west coast as Tropical Storm Fay meanders north northeast up the state. ...more

August 19, 2008

On a typical day in this fishing town on Africa's northwest coast, sea gull calls nearly drown the chatter of fishermen lined up along the sea wall. The birds, their white wings splayed out by the wind, sail inches above the heads of veiled women who walk the promenade. ...more

February 16, 2008

A Waste Of Money Regarding "Grand Jury Indicts Bonds" (front page, Nov. 16): ...more

November 23, 2007

Splashing through a shallow creek in suburban New Jersey, the paleontologists stepped back 65 million years to the time of the last mass extinction, the one notable for the demise of the dinosaurs. ...more

November 11, 2007