Gold and black-clad fans with Steelers' iconic Terrible Towels waving in the air or tucked into their back pockets partied into the early morning hours Monday in an impromptu block party across Pittsburgh to celebrate the team's historic sixth Super Bowl win. ...more

February 2, 2009

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Regarding "Don't Trash Junk Mail; City To Recycle It" (Metro, June 19): I would like to commend the city of Tampa for adding so many more items to the recycling list. This makes recycling so much easier. I am a teacher as well as a homemaker. I have always emphasized both at home and in my classroom, the importance of the "Four R's": reuse, recycle and reduce all in the context of respect for our precious Earth. But recycling has not always been made easy. Now that the city has added many more items to their collection list starting today, it is very easy for the citizens to recycle almost everything that makes up so much of our garbage. ...more

July 1, 2008

SEBRING — Meters need to be changed out, customers need their water cut off, the electronic registers go kaput and need rewiring ... those are pretty routine tasks for water meter readers. But in Sebring, you can add "dealing with killer bees" to the job description, according to a utility official. ...more

June 17, 2008