Four local riders won national BMX championships, led by Tyler Klumper, who won three, at the Redline Cup East Finals in Kettering, Ohio, on Sept. 7. ...more

September 17, 2008

Four local riders won national BMX championships, led by Tyler Klumper, who won three, at the Redline Cup East Finals in Kettering, Ohio, on Sept. 7. ...more

September 17, 2008

Hillsborough County School Board member Susan Valdes asked fellow board members Tuesday at a workshop to consider what Brevard County is doing: Charge parents who live closer than two miles to their school a fee to transport their children. ...more

September 10, 2008

A strong outgoing tide at Ponce Inlet on Florida's east coast turned a Saturday evening swim into a Coast Guard rescue mission. ...more

September 8, 2008

TAMPA Hanna, Ike and Josephine, the conga line of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, could keep Florida on edge into next week. ...more

September 2, 2008

It has been a long, tiring summer for those who have a taste for the tasty white fillets of Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook. The season has been closed on the west coast since May 1 to protect spawners, but it reopens Monday and continues through November. ...more

August 29, 2008

Casey Kotchman, the first baseman from Seminole High School, expected his cell phone to be especially active Wednesday. ...more

August 2, 2008

A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of environmentalists seeking protection for the endangered North Atlantic right whale, giving those activists a victory in a long-running fight to prevent collisions of the giant mammals with ships. ...more

July 19, 2008

The crash that killed three people Thursday afternoon at Vandenberg Airport was not only incredibly sad, it was awful in its irony. ...more

July 19, 2008

Ever catch a 20-pound snook? Odds are that even if you have been so lucky as to get a huge fish in recent years, you're not actually sure of how much the lunker weighed. All snook longer than 33 inches (32 inches on the east coast) must now be released, and even weighing the fish is discouraged because weighing them requires suspending them from the jaw - a no-no for successful release. ...more

June 22, 2008