An ambitious plan to establish super-sized generators at dozens of special-needs hurricane shelters before the start of storm season last year failed. ...more

January 20, 2008

SEBRING — One Jahna Concrete employee was killed and another was hospitalized, in what is being called an industrial accident Monday afternoon behind the Fairmount Cinema Square shopping center. ...more

January 14, 2008

An explosion almost certainly caused by a buildup of methane gas tore through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least 63 miners in what has become a deadly pattern in the mining industries of the former Soviet Union. ...more

November 19, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - As the days of volunteer fire departments all but disappear, Pasco County emergency officials are wondering if their fundraising efforts should follow suit. ...more

November 6, 2007

Tropical Storm Noel brought heavy rain to the western Caribbean on Tuesday as it pushed through Cuba and edged closer to Florida. Floods and mudslides have killed at least 22 people. ...more

October 31, 2007

In the chaotic hours before Hurricane Charley plowed over Florida three years ago, shelters opened their doors to an influx of frail seniors who had nowhere else to go. Some were so fragile, with so many health problems, that reporters began making inquiries. ...more

October 9, 2007

Rescue workers searched a rugged, remote part of the central Cascade Range on Monday for a private plane that disappeared Sunday with 10 people onboard. ...more

October 9, 2007

In the chaotic hours before Hurricane Charley plowed over Florida three years ago, shelters opened their doors to an influx of frail seniors who had nowhere else to go. Some were so fragile, with so many health problems, that reporters began making inquiries. What nursing homes, they demanded to know, were dumping all of these vulnerable, elderly people into public shelters? ...more

October 8, 2007