The world's largest consumer products maker is finding that "new and improved" is still good but "lower price" is working better. ...more

September 11, 2009

Two Tampa Bay area men died in separate diving accidents in the Florida Keys while hunting lobster Thursday. ...more

August 8, 2009

Federal officials are considering opening a vast sweep of forest and swamp on both sides of Alligator Alley to hunting and off-road vehicles. ...more

July 11, 2009

A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations. ...more

March 14, 2009

The latest word on a helicopter crash in Siberia is that seven people were killed, including a Russian lawmaker. ...more

January 11, 2009

Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points - their largest one-day point drop - before recovering to close with a loss of 370. The catalyst for the selling, which also took the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, was investors' growing despair that the spreading credit crisis will take a heavy toll around the world. ...more

October 6, 2008

I feel compelled to respond to a letter that appeared last week regarding a commercial showing aerial hunting of wolves and bears in Alaska. I wonder where this person got his information; it is my understanding that the area originally picked to kill all wolves is 5,000 square miles, and it was so hunters could kill three moose instead of one. ...more

October 6, 2008

Pakistan sought to reassure Washington on Friday that it remains an ally in fighting terrorism, but warned the United States to stay out of Pakistani territory while hunting militants along the volatile border with Afghanistan. ...more

September 27, 2008

"Undiscovered Country," by Lin Enger (Little, Brown and Co., $24) ...more

August 31, 2008

House one, house two, house three. Those choices are familiar to fans of "House Hunters," a popular show on HGTV, a cable television network that focuses on house and garden matters. The show follows people in various cities and even in other countries as they visit three houses on their house hunting search. ...more

July 30, 2008