A 12-foot-long Burmese python was captured over the weekend in Port Tampa by police and firefighters, who gingerly guided the reptile into a city-issued garbage can as spectators watched. ...more

December 8, 2009

On a normal workday, Bill Snyder of Brandon would have had a telephone receiver attached to his ear, practically nonstop. ...more

July 5, 2008

On a normal workday, Bill Snyder of Brandon would have had a telephone receiver attached to his ear, practically nonstop. ...more

June 18, 2008

Chances are, I will be shot in the head with a nail gun. ...more

June 13, 2008

Kenya's opposition leader Sunday called for international peacekeepers to help restore calm in a country once considered one of the most stable on the continent, as weeks of violence linked to the disputed presidential election gathered frightening momentum. ...more

February 4, 2008

Men sobbed as police unloaded 16 charred bodies at a mortuary in this western Kenyan city. People with machete and arrow wounds overwhelmed the main hospital and were forced to share beds. Hundreds of homeless took shelter at a church. ...more

January 27, 2008

A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of people fleeing election violence Tuesday, killing up to 50 people, including many children, as four days of rioting and ethnic clashes marked one of the darkest times in Kenya's history. ...more

January 2, 2008

Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election, a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. ...more

January 1, 2008

Thousands of Kenyans enraged over delays in announcing the country's next president burned down homes and attacked political rivals with sticks and machetes Saturday, tainting a vote that initially was seen as a beacon of hope for democracy in Africa. ...more

December 30, 2007

As dawn cracks over seemingly endless fields of sugar cane, a ragged army of men and women sharpen their machetes to harvest the raw material for Brazil's 'white gold.' ...more

October 2, 2007