The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it. ...more

August 23, 2008

Eight firefighters and a pilot were presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter that had just picked up firefighters battling a blaze in a Northern California forest, officials said Wednesday. ...more

August 7, 2008

House lawmakers scolded federal regulators Thursday for failing to implement recommendations made in 2001 that were designed to keep medically unfit commercial truck and bus drivers off the nation's highways. ...more

July 25, 2008

The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that it is investigating a near collision of airborne planes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport - the third such incident at a major airport this month. ...more

July 24, 2008

The memorial service started at sunset Sunday with prayers, hymns and recollections of Harlan "Lanny" Northcott. When it ended, an old-fashioned cookout began. ...more

July 20, 2008

At Vandenberg Airport, where Harlan Northcott's Beechcraft Bonanza crashed Thursday afternoon, killing him, Patricia Snyder, 49, and Tyler McLellan, 15, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board offered more information Saturday about what happened. ...more

July 20, 2008

At Vanderberg Airport, where Harlan Northcott's Beechcraft Bonanza crashed Thursday afternoon, killing him, Patricia Snyder, 49 and Tyler McLellan, 15, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board offered a little more information today about what happened. ...more

July 19, 2008

A day after pilot Harlan "Lanny" Northcott and his two passengers died while attempting to fly a cancer patient home, his devastated family tried to cope with their loss. ...more

July 19, 2008

A Valrico man was one of three South Florida crewmen who survived a Miami-bound cargo jet crash outside the Colombian capital early Monday that killed two people on the ground and injured five others onboard. ...more

July 7, 2008

A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway. ...more

July 4, 2008