Germany celebrated the anniversary of its reunification Saturday with a performance featuring a pair of giant marionettes suspended by cranes marching through downtown. The spectacle, performed by France's Royale de Luxe theater company, culminated with the two embracing at the Brandenburg Gate - reuniting on the former dividing line between East and West Berlin. ...more

October 4, 2009

For the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left New Orleans a quagmire of flooded streets and smashed homes, the city's population has risen above 300,000 people, according to Census Bureau figures released Wednesday. ...more

March 18, 2009

The chief officer of a Korean cargo ship that dumped oily waste into the ocean has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he concealed the polluting in ship records. ...more

February 16, 2009

Gerald Graup has always been handy with tools. When he wasn't making a living from it, he spent his spare time making things, like the wooden model of a Mississippi riverboat he displays in a case in his living room on top of a cabinet he built himself. ...more

December 6, 2008

High-wire daredevil Nik Wallenda took a bike ride Wednesday 135 feet above Newark without a net. ...more

October 16, 2008

GOLF Hernando Oaks Golf and Country Club draws raves reviews from residents, and presents visual challenges for the golfer. ...more

September 1, 2008

It requires enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York to Miami and enough pipe to reach the top of the Empire State Building 140 times over. Workers carved out enough dirt from the ground to fill more than 100,000 dump trucks. ...more

August 31, 2008

Training camp is supposed to be the toughest part of an NFL season, but Tampa Bay believed its methods became unreasonable last year. ...more

July 25, 2008

It's unfortunate that legislation establishing Florida's first tower crane regulations collapsed because of a dispute over whether counties should have the right to adopt tougher standards. ...more

June 12, 2008

On a sunny Saturday, more than 300 people stood in clusters squinting out at the gurgling Mississippi River and the spot where one of the state's most-traveled bridges fell down one evening last August, killing 13 people and injuring many more. ...more

June 8, 2008