Florida executes serial murderer
As he lay on a Death Row gurney waiting for the lethal injection Wednesday night that would end his life, serial murderer Danny Harold Rolling began singing: "None greater than...
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Predicting Ivan’s course remains inexact science
Where will Hurricane Ivan come ashore? Supercomputers in facilities from Florida to Maryland to California have been trying to answer that question for days. Programmed with decades of hurricane history,...
Floods follow Frances’ deluge
As Seminole County waited for the St. Johns River to crest in Sanford, homeowners throughout Central Florida saw their yards slowly fill with water from Hurricane Frances. Officials from the...
Millions see familiar sight: Darkness
Hurricane Frances cut electricity to an estimated 5 million people -- a quarter of them in Central Florida -- as it slogged across the state Sunday. Although lacking the sustained...
Counties brace for huge tab
Four days after Hurricane Charley slashed through Central Florida, local governments are struggling to get a grip on the price of cleaning up the mess and repairing the damage. That...
Almost 1 million residents still without power
Power companies Sunday restored electricity to one in five customers left in the dark by Hurricane Charley, but nearly 1 million Central Florida residents faced the prospect of a cold...
Charley roars across Central Florida
Hurricane Charley battered Central Florida on Friday night, packing 105-mph winds that tore off roofs, snapped trees like twigs and left hundreds of thousands of residents without power. And as...
NASA lets problems endangering shuttles go unfixed
At the instant of a fiery liftoff, an array of finger-size explosives is supposed to shatter the steel nuts that anchor a space shuttle to its launch pad. For the...
NASA board uses loophole to meet in secret
Civilian members of the board investigating the shuttle Columbia disaster--outsiders who were added to reassure Congress and the public that the board would be independent of NASA--are being paid executive-level...
EMT: Seat belt intact
Dale Earnhardt's seat belt did not break during his fatal crash at the Daytona 500, according to one of the first rescuers to come to his aid. Tommy Propst, a...