Divers for the South Florida Water Management District maintain the country's largest flood control system of its kind. The divers' duties include repairing pumps and floodgates, removing blockages and adding new equipment. ...more

February 24, 2009

Florida's critters are harder to come by as urban sprawl sterilizes the landscape. ...more

October 21, 2008

Mendenhall is go-to guy for first responders. ...more

October 21, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are investigating a twist on an old robbery scam, this one involving thieves claiming they were hired to remove poisonous snakes from a homeowner's property. ...more

September 26, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are investigating a twist in an old robbery scam that involves thieves approaching homeowners and telling them they were hired to remove poisonous snakes on the residents' property, authorities said. ...more

September 25, 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

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

When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 - one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and spurs on its rear legs - he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax. ...more

May 8, 2008

Some loaded their possessions into grocery carts, wheeling what they could save over knee-deep floodwaters. Others jumped from fast-disappearing rooftops and swam to higher ground. ...more

November 3, 2007