What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2009, the buzz around consecutive no-hit streaks was still nowhere near the national radar, Sports Illustrated likely had no clue yet as to who was going to be its national boys high school athlete of the year and it was probable the University of Florida baseball team would be getting a 90-plus-mph lefty arm added to its rotation the following school year. ...more

March 13, 2010

Bird enthusiasts fanned out over west Pasco County on Friday to find out how many feathered creatures are hanging around. ...more

January 4, 2009

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE - Of all the instruments of warfare displayed here this morning for the Special Operations Command appreciation day, the attention mainly was focused on a bizarre hybrid of helicopter and airplane. ...more

May 21, 2008

By fall, osprey aficionados around the world should be able to view Dunedin's very own Osprey-cam, direct from high atop a perch at St. Andrew's Links Golf Course. ...more

May 9, 2008

The University of South Florida women's basketball team extended its winning streak to four Wednesday while continuing to exasperate Coach Jose Fernandez. ...more

December 6, 2007

Pearl Chiarenza toured dozens of houses for sale in Hillsborough County, but she said the minute she pulled off Bell Shoals Road to see a listing in South Oak, she knew she had found her family's new home. ...more

November 28, 2007

To their credit, the young members of the University of Florida basketball team realize their first five wins - including Tuesday's 102-51 shellacking of North Florida - haven't done much to predict exactly what kind of team the Gators will be when they grow up. ...more

November 21, 2007

I haven't heard or read such a load of "Codswallop" in years such as what journalist, Patrick Buchanan, wrote in the Oct. 26 issue of Highlands Today. Global warming isn't an extremist's point of view. Hasn't he heard of Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring?" People at that time were not aware of the effects of DDT on raptors' eggs, and as a result, ospreys, eagles, etc. were almost wiped out. For Mr. Buchanan to deign that global warming isn't happening, is kin to the ostrich's head in the sand (well, maybe I won't acknowledge it, then it won't happen.) He apparently has never read any Nature Conservancy, National Audubon Society magazines, or anything to do with the majority of what biologists, zoologists, ornithologists, etc. have been reporting for many years. ...more

November 2, 2007

U.S. Marines have just deployed the V-22 Osprey to Iraq despite serious questions about the vertical-landing aircraft's safety and utility. ...more

October 16, 2007