The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. ...more

October 27, 2007

If you need to flee from a giant firestorm that threatens to turn your world to ashes, Ronald Garza allowed between bites of an ice cream bar Tuesday, 'this is probably the best place to be.' ...more

October 24, 2007

SARASOTA - A former Sarasota County employee claimed she was given the answers to a test that measured employees' ability to communicate in times of disaster. ...more

October 15, 2007

Despite a White House veto threat, the U.S. House on Thursday approved a bill that would add wind insurance coverage to an already debt-ridden national flood insurance program. ...more

September 28, 2007