"American Idiot" kicked Green Day into levels of respectability no punk ever imagines. Having to follow it apparently didn't appeal to the trio, so it sidestepped the issue with a new identity. ...more

June 5, 2008

Disappointed gator hunters prevented from getting a permit this week by a balky computer will have a second chance when the state opens another round of applications on June 17. ...more

June 5, 2008

TAMPA - Hunters have snapped up nearly all the available permits for this year's alligator hunting season, leaving only about 100 this morning of the roughly 4,800 permits that were to be issued. ...more

June 4, 2008

TAMPA - For those itching to match their skills and nerve against the state's iconic reptile, the chance to get a license for the state's annual alligator hunt arrives at 10 a.m. ...more

June 3, 2008

LARGO - Florida Highway Patrol troopers found a missing 81-year-old man with Alzheimer's safe in his disabled car on Alligator Alley this morning. ...more

June 1, 2008

Flo Lyles, 81, spent the past two years cutting and pasting history into a scrapbook. ...more

May 31, 2008

A man found Saturday floating near an alligator that had been feeding on his remains drowned, according to an autopsy Sunday. ...more

May 18, 2008

WEEKI WACHEE - The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge … well, whatever qualities one should look for — in a fin. "That's a small tail," Julie Busch said, glancing without subtlety at the girth of my own, real tail — wider than the average mermaid. ...more

May 11, 2008

The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge ... well, whatever qualities one should look for - in a fin. ...more

May 11, 2008

Florida wildlife officials plan to issue more permits than ever for the state's public alligator hunting season, now in its 20th year. ...more

May 7, 2008