For volunteer firefighters, this was the Holy Grail. To stay under the smoke, kneel when entering the door of a burning home. Follow the hose in, remain with the three-man team, and make sure all three come out. ...more

September 15, 2008

The U.S. Olympic basketball team wrapped up its exhibition schedule with its toughest test, pulling away to beat Australia 87-76 Tuesday night in its final game before heading to Beijing. ...more

August 6, 2008

and usually when it's too late - that when someone says "Not to worry," that's about the time you'd better start doing just that. ...more

July 30, 2008

TAMPA - Kirsten Simenson's fourth-grade class at FishHawk Creek Elementary School has embarked on a pet project that is just purr-fect for emergency workers who have to resuscitate smoke-filled animals. ...more

January 11, 2008

The conservationists tend to get a little tense when they approach Egg 54, which sits alone on a metal tray inside an incubator, absorbing warm air like some sort of fragile, slow-baked potato. ...more

December 30, 2007

WHO: Ann Mazzitelli of Port Richey CLAIM TO FAME: After reading about Topmost, a coal-mining town in eastern Kentucky, she knitted 50 hats for children who had few warm clothes for the winter. ...more

November 19, 2007

Port Richey resident Ann Mazzitelli uses her knitting skills to help the poor. ...more

October 17, 2007

Researchers have found a surprising diversity of hardy bacteria in a seemingly unlikely place - the so-called sterile clean rooms where NASA assembles its spacecraft and prepares them for launching. ...more

October 12, 2007