Investigators began gathering pieces of the incinerated wreckage of a commuter airliner early Saturday in search of clues to the cause of the fiery crash that killed 50 people. ...more

February 14, 2009

When New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a commencement address at Oglethorpe University in May 1932, the economic crisis that had befallen the United States three years earlier had already morphed into the Great Depression: One in four Americans was out of work, banks were failing at a rate of 10 per week and the gross national product was at half its pre-crash level. ...more

December 27, 2008

A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the scene Sunday of a plane crash that killed two people Saturday. ...more

December 15, 2008

A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the scene Sunday of a plane crash that happened at Golf Hammock Saturday. ...more

December 14, 2008

The federal government has declared that the beluga whale in Alaska's Cook Inlet is endangered and will require additional protection to survive. ...more

October 17, 2008

Texas and Louisiana began a massive recovery effort Saturday, including searching for the stranded and missing, after Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm stretching about 600 miles, pulverized the Gulf Coast with maximum winds of about 100 mph as it flattened houses, ripped the glass windows from downtown office buildings and left a wide swath of flooding and devastation in its wake. ...more

September 14, 2008

As officials concluded a search for victims of the worst U.S. train accident in 15 years, questions arose Saturday about why the engineer of a Southern California commuter rail locomotive allegedly ran through a stop signal, sending his train head-on into a freight train. ...more

September 14, 2008

Jamie Conlan and Daria Barnhart spent their vacation this past year slathering mortar over concrete-block walls in the hot sun, helping tsunami victims in southern Thailand build new homes. ...more

January 6, 2008

A former University of South Florida geography instructor was arrested on charges he made bomb threats against the American Red Cross, which he blamed for failing to pay his medical bills during a relief effort in Thailand. ...more

December 11, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - A former University of South Florida geography instructor was arrested on charges he made bomb threats against the American Red Cross, which he blamed for failing to pay his medical bills during a relief effort in Thailand. ...more

December 11, 2007