Kevin Spear

Orange expects $3.2 billion in damage

August 18, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Hurricane Charley's wreckage in Central Florida varied from the shattered antique-style streetlights in downtown Orlando to thousands of damaged mobile homes in rural areas. Orange County alone estimated $3.2 billion...

NASA lets problems endangering shuttles go unfixed

August 20, 2021 at 12:04 a.m.

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...

Shuttle investigator Dan Bell examines a 16-inch hole that was blasted in a space-shuttle wing panel during a test in San Antonio on Monday. A similar breach may have led to the destruction of Columbia.

Foam tears shuttle in test

April 6, 2019 at 10:59 a.m.

SAN ANTONIO - A foam projectile fired at the leading edge of a space shuttle's wing yesterday all but destroyed a piece of its thermal armor, blasting a 16-inch hole...

It’s a mosquito’s world after all

August 20, 2021 at 7:44 a.m.

Under laboratory magnification, the corpse of one female mosquito stood out among dozens of others captured in a patch of Walt Disney World swamp: The transparent skin of her swollen...

OFFICIALS URGED TO GIVE MILITARY VOTE 2ND LOOK

August 20, 2021 at 10:17 p.m.

Florida Atty. Gen. Bob Butterworth urged election supervisors on Monday to take a second look at counting previously discarded absentee ballots from military personnel overseas. Responding to Republican complaints that...

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