A tropical disturbance 600 miles east of the Lesser Antilles could form into a depression during the next day or so and could strike the United States or Cuba, meteorologist Richard Rude of the National Weather Service said today. ...more

August 31, 2009

Funding cuts are jeopardizing a buoy system in the Gulf of Mexico that measures wind, waves and currents, crucial information in the kind of search and rescue efforts necessary this week with the disappearance of four football players in the Gulf. ...more

March 5, 2009

Funding cuts are jeopardizing a buoy system in the Gulf of Mexico that measures wind, waves and currents, crucial information in the kind of search and rescue efforts necessary this week with the disappearance of four football players in the Gulf. ...more

March 4, 2009

Candy, flowers and a romantic dinner may be great Valentine's Day gifts, but try screening your loved one for skin cancer. ...more

February 14, 2009

SEBRING — Four of five members of the School Board of Highlands County oppose the proposed change in the state's science standards that would present evolution as fact to students. Some school board members across the state have opposed the proposed revisions to the science curriculum that specifies that evolution be taught as "fact" as opposed to a "theory," School Board Attorney John McClure said at a recent school board meeting. Would the board consider a resolution opposing the proposed change in the Sunshine State Standards that would present evolution as fact? he asked. "I would for one," would support such a resolution, School Board Member Richard Norris said. ...more

January 25, 2008

Florida's public school students for years have been studying "biological changes over time," but proposed revisions in state science standards for the first time would use another term for that concept: evolution. ...more

December 8, 2007